"Crocodile Shears" a Wikipedia hoax?

[dfinder (imported)]

A number of Wikipedia entries were recently declared to be hoaxes, including the infamous 'crocodile shears'. Google search finds about 7000 references online, most being direct copies from the Wiki or other sites. The typical (and usually-verbatim) description goes like:

"The crocodile shears was an instrument of torture used in late medieval Europe and typically reserved for regicides – those who attempted (and, perhaps, succeeded) to assassinate the king. The shears were made of iron and were based upon the concept of pincers, but—instead of standard jaws or blades, crocodile shears ended in a pair of hemicylindrical blades that, when closed together, formed a long, narrow tube. The insides of the blades were generously lined with teeth or spikes. After being heated red-hot, the crocodile shears were applied to the erect penis, which—once exposed to sufficient tension—was torn from the prisoner’s body; or at the very least leading to severe arterial bleeding."

The main variation seems to be whether the doomed organ was erect at the time of the device's application. (For those of us with a penis-abuse fetish, it's 'obvious' that the male member should be aroused and fully erect. How its owner is inspired to bring it to that state, naked in a medieval torture chamber, is another matter entirely).

There seems to be only one photo on the planet of the device, because exactly the same image (if any) shows up repeatedly.

Some have noted it's strange it's called a "shears" since there is nothing shear-like (scissor-like) in its mechanism of operation - it does not cut.

But now it appears it's all the figment of someone's fertile (and delightfully twisted) imagination.

See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/0 ... 32633.html

Excerpt: "The fact that 'anyone can edit' the free encyclopedia does cause problems. For instance, there are many other hoaxes that have appeared on Wikipedia. Remember a torture device called 'crocodile shears'? Those, like the Bicholim Conflict, were a wiki writer's fiction."

Some of us will receive this news with a decided mixture of emotions:

1) it's a horrible and incredibly painful way to torture someone and destroy their male member, so fundamentally I'm glad it never happened;

2) the idea of creating a device specifically for damaging / destroying the erect penis, for those of us with this kink, remains undeniably and darkly erotic. It's shown up more than once in EA stories - I can recall one where it was the sole topic - and artfully-crafted images of same, in use, have shown up on other sites including Slammr's "The Dark Spot"

So we may now have to say good bye to a history that never was, except in the darkest and most depraved corners of our imagination.

- Finder

[Twinsenboy (imported)]

What actually is for real are all those inventions by Albert V. Todd. Patents like the "testicle taser" that you can find on google. Ever seen them? He drew and patented a lot of wicked chastity devices.

[calamity (imported)]

http://christwire.org/2010/10/the-anti- ... nventions/

theres a couple nice ones in here

i remember reading about crocodile shears and tbh...it would not surprise if they did actually exist...

humans especially pre 1800s even could be very cruel and inventive when it came to torture.

[kristoff]

http://christwire.org/2010/10/the-anti- ... nventions/

theres a couple nice ones in here

i remember reading about crocodile shears and tbh...it would not surprise if they did actually exist...

humans especially pre 1800s even could be very cruel and inventive when it came to torture.

I doubt that we are any less so now. Just different means, methods, cruelty, and torture.

[Twinsenboy (imported)]

http://christwire.org/2010/10/the-anti- ... nventions/

theres a couple nice ones in here

That's it! Such a wicked tool, meant for troubled youth and others who gets naughty erections... Well, I guess most guys.

That Albert sure was the most wicked one of them all. Truth seems stranger than fiction.