i took a class in undergrad on the history of torture and when the professor was talking about the "pear of anguish, also called a speculum," another student raised her hand and asked if it was at all related to the modern speculum and he said "the... modern speculum?" and she told him gynecologists use a tool called a speculum, and she explained what it was for, and this man looked horrified, pulled up google, and started searching for images. he turned bright red and closed his laptop and then he went "well. perhaps." and then when i guess he realized he couldn't recover from that shock, he dismissed us early. i still think about that a lot.
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