Patently Erotic: Tear-away Bras, Couple's Chairs, Vibrating Condoms and Other Patented Strokes of Genius

Ross, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1861059108 ISBN 13: 9781861059109

Published by Robson Books Ltd, 2005

Language: English

Used Condition: Good Hardcover

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Title: Patently Erotic: Tear-away Bras, Couple's ...

Publisher: Robson Books Ltd

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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In this unique collection of unbelievable real-life patent applications, author, photographer and connoisseur of the bizarre and faintly disturbing Richard Ross has delved into the archives of patent offices to take a look at contraptions designed to titillate and facilitate. Accompanied by commentary from the author and illustrated with the inventors' own diagrams, inventions such as force-sensitive, sound-playing condoms and lap dance liners provide a revealing look at our issues with intimacy. Choose from a device for assisting and maintaining an erection, therapeutic or adhesive brassieres, thrusting rods, prophylactic underwear or even an artificial foreskin -- each is a celebration of innovation at its most feverish. The book is supported by Richard Ross' website www.patentlyerotic.com

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Richard Ross is an award-winning photographer and professor at the University of California—Santa Barbara. His photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, the J. Paul Getty Museum and in galleries throughout the world. He lives by the ocean and walks his dog with a conventional leash.

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