November 24th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
The Toucan Of Anal Revenge
Versions of this image are all over the web but good sourcing is hard to come by. This German forum seems to suggest that a camera panned over a manuscript page where this was an illustration during a show on the History Channel, but as citations go, I admit that’s pretty lame:
I guess the idea was to suggest that oral sex, if you were so foolish to partake, would be punished by a toucan with a fierce anal fixation?
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For some folks, this would encourage rather than discourage them . . .
The program our Austrians were referring to was episode 3 of “The History of Sex,” which dates from that mythical time when the History Channel was doing history instead of Bigfoot. Unfortunately, the only explanation it offers is that the picture was drawn “in the margins of a prayer book,” and I’ve been able to find nothing more in twelve years of WTF.
From text descriptions I think this may be on page 65v of The Book of Hours MS M754 at Pierpoint Morgan Library:
http://corsair....28495
Unfortunately the images are not behind the button.
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