Rotatable Apparatus
Or, The Thigh Straps Were To Ensure Comfort.Â
One for ladies of child-bearing age:
George and Charlotte Blonsky suggested that modern women were ill-equipped to give birth… They argued that modern women who live with modern luxuries “often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed,” and that something was needed to provide them with the force necessary for a smooth birth.
This patented invention from 1963 was designed to help women give birth easily
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I can tell you’re impressed. The net and bell combo is a lovely touch. “In case medical personnel are momentarily distracted.”Â
The patent, from 1963, can be found here.
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I think we need some input from the ladies.
Sorry – I never made it past the article’s headline and first lines: Pregnant People? Pregnant patients? WTF.
That said – I’m not sure that will work the way they think it will – the baby isn’t an inanimate object. I guess the thought was the cervix is opening up to let the baby out, so the centrifugal forces will assist the uterine contractions of expulsion, rather than say, expel your guts (or their contents) because supposedly the muscles holding them in aren’t relaxing? Unlike uterine contractions, centrifugal forces act generally, on everything, so why would they think only the baby is going to come shooting out, and not everything else in there?
He never was bedeviled
His clothes were all disheveled
That fact-connecting, crime-detecting son of a gun Columbo
[ Considers rewatching old episodes of Columbo. The early seasons, obviously. ]
Jeff Guinn,
My father had a little framed plaque on the wall, back in the 60s, which was an “award” for surviving his g-training. it included remarks about “eyeballs-in” and “eyeballs-out” g-tests. Eyeballs-out was, he said, just as awful as it sounds.
(NASA, instead of USAF, but probably same-same.)
Semi-related: One of Heinlein’s speculations, which appeared in several stories, was that women made better spaceship pilots than men because they could better endure g-forces. If I recall one or two recent news items on “equity” in the military, that advantage turned out to not exist. A good number of fellow sf readers, however, somehow internalized Heinlein’s speculation as solid fact.
Oops but LOL.
I was hoping to start a fight around “torch” vs “flashlight” but David didn’t take the bait.
but I have noticed some differences in male-female psychology, and they can, I think, make life more complicated than is strictly necessary.
You don’t know the half of it brother. My wife’s middle name switches back and forth from “apropos of nothing” to “non sequitur.”
Not so divergent he couldn’t make a valid self-assessment.
NHS insider on how the NHS ignores rape gang victims
Will we include the libtards? Please?