Erotic furniture

Erotic furniture, also known as sex furniture, is any form of furniture that is designed to act as an aid to sexual activity. Erotic furniture can also be furniture decorated with erotic art. While almost any furniture can be used to aid sexual activity, conventional furniture is not considered to be erotic furniture as its primary use is not erotic.

A spanking bench

Specifically designed furniture for erotic purposes can include:

Devices to aid impact play activities such as erotic spanking and flagellation. An example of this type of furniture is the Berkley Horse.
Sex swings^[1] and fisting slings.
Sex Gliders
Devices for using gravity to aid in lovemaking without the use of complicated slings.
Various types of angled foam wedges or specially designed sex pillows that support various sex positions. Liberator Shapes are an example, as are the ergonomically based Lovebumpers.
Bondage equipment such as stocks and pillories
Smotherboxes and other queening stools used for facesitting.
The Love Chair, a curious chair made of curved tubular steel, articulated in several ways and designed to facilitate otherwise impossible sexual acts. This device was advertised in men's magazines in the mid-1970s, and is seen in at least one of Nina Hartley's Guide to videos, but it is no longer commercially available.
Sawhorses, which are shaped much like the version used for carpentry, but have a sharpened edge and are primarily sat on to achieve a feeling similar to a crotch rope in bondage.

In the eighteenth century, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great collected erotic furniture, including tables with penises for legs and other items carved in relief with penises and vulvas.^[2]

A chair designed to facilitate threesomes, exhibited in the Sex Machines Museum, Prague.

The British King Edward VII, who was heavily overweight, used a specially constructed "love seat" (siege d'amour ) when he visited the famous brothel, Le Chabanais in Paris. The piece still exists and a replica^[3] is exhibited at the Musée de l'Erotisme in Pigalle.^[4]

Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa, (1961), a neo-Victorian pseudo-porno satire consisting of non-illustrations—there's always a potted palm or something in the way. One caption reads "That evening in the library Scylla, one of the guests who had certain anatomical peculiarities, demonstrated the 'Lithuanian Typewriter', assisted by Ronald and Rupert, two remarkably well-set-up young men from the village." The Curious Sofa of the title is approached with some misgivings by the house-party guests at the end.

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Notes

^ Taormino, Tristan (2009-12-01). The Big Book of Sex Toys: From Vibrators and Dildos to Swings and Slings--Playful and Kinky Bedside Accessories That Make Your Sex Life Amazing. Quiver. ISBN 978-1-59233-355-4.
^ Catherine the Great: A Life From Beginning to End. Biographies of Women in History. Vol. 7. Hourly History. 2017. p. 31. ISBN 9781976378379.
^ "On the trail of Edward VII's sex chair for threesomes". The Week UK.
^ Dirty Bertie's seat of pleasure, The Times, 17 January 2004

Bibliography

Kemper, Alfred M. (1972). Love Couches Design Criteria. Los Angeles. LCCN 75-36170. OCLC 3592145. (101 pages. Design criteria for assistive furniture, with sections on accommodation of disabled persons.)

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[1] Taormino, Tristan (2009-12-01). The Big Book of Sex Toys: From Vibrators and Dildos to Swings and Slings--Playful and Kinky Bedside Accessories That Make Your Sex Life Amazing. Quiver. ISBN 978-1-59233-355-4.

[2] Catherine the Great: A Life From Beginning to End. Biographies of Women in History. Vol. 7. Hourly History. 2017. p. 31. ISBN 9781976378379.

[3] "On the trail of Edward VII's sex chair for threesomes". The Week UK.

[4] Dirty Bertie's seat of pleasure, The Times, 17 January 2004

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