Iron Maiden was actually what came to mind when I saw this topic... I learned about it in some trivia question on the radio. I don't want to knoow about that website.... !!!!!
HA! You think that's a torture device??
Here's one that makes the rest of them look like baby toys... link
It's guaranteed to kill brain cells fast, and those immune to it are those who have no brain cells left.
I recommend the museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, which is dedicated to this kind of stuff, if you're really interested.
It makes the (imagined) pain all the more wincingly excruciating when you see these things in the flesh.
I take that kind of thing with a grain of salt - isn't it quite widely proven that the chastity belt never actually existed until Victorian times? The ones that exist were forgeries made then to show how uncivilised the world was and how wonderful things were for the people who lived under the good Queen Vic.
*wince*
Who in tarnation came up with some of these things? You'd have me on the ground begging for mercy at the mere mention of that heretic's fork thing.
