This metal device is one of a number of similar devices which were invented in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to prevent masturbation. A leather strap which would have kept it in place is now missing. Until the early 1900s, many people regarded masturbation as harmful to a person's health, and it was blamed for a variety of ailments, including insanity.

Picture Reference: 10287396
Subject: MEDICINE & HEALTH > Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry > Psychiatry, Equipment
Inventory No.: A641285
Credit: Science Museum

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