Reading Laura Frost’s review of?Vibrator Nation?(“Happiness lies in your own hands”, Books, 7 September), which I very much enjoyed, I was reminded of such literary greats as Thomas Nashe’s poem?Choice of Valentines, which rapidly became known as?Nashe’s Dildo, as well as the reference to “Madam with a dildo, writ o’ the walls” in Ben Jonson’s play?The Alchemist.
Shakespeare refers to “the delicate burdens of dildos” in?The Winter’s Tale. One wonders if the brand name for such a device might, in the case of the Bard, have been “Arden Fast”?
Peter J. Smith
Reader in Renaissance literature
Nottingham Trent University
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