There have been many sadistic inventions: the mediaeval torture chambers were full of them.
We need not give
a list here. Suffice it to mention that the inquisitors, with full theological sanction, thought it
proper to introduce
a clamp specially devised for the torture of pregnant women. In more recent times, electrical
generators have
been used on all parts of the bodies of men and women. And Chapman Pincher mentions (in
"Sex in Our Time")
a pair of binoculars in the Black Museum of Scotland Yard - "These were sent anonymously
through the post
to a girl, and by chance her father turned the adjusting screw before she put them to her eyes.
A pair of
spring-loaded penknife blades shot out of the eyepieces."