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From: "Satyam" <Satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The Wikipedia article of the day provides some interesting facts about
when if became naughty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions
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May I add something that came to my mind related to this. As the Wikipedia
article says, the idea of pornography was developed mostly in the Victorian
era. It is fitting to mention that at the same time, those we would now
call scientists (the term wasn't popular then) devoted much of their time to
screwing. Pretty much as anybody else, you would say. Not quite, the term
meant something else then.
The Industrial Revolution was facing a big problem , the lack of standards.
Each and every machine was unique, when something broke, a replacement had
to be crafted, just like the original piece had been. One of the most
important pieces, due to the quantity used in each and every machine, were
screws, bolts and nuts. Thus, it was important to develop standards for
screws, length, diameter, threads per inch, depth and profile of the thread
and so on, so they could be manufactured in quantities.
This subject was referred to as 'screwing' and I am sure Queen Victoria
would have wholehartedly aproved of it.
Satyam
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