
Vital Electricity
You're Dead to Me
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The Celestial Bed
The celestial bed was created in the late 18th century. The idea is that electricity coursing around you as you make love to your wife or whatever. It's, in some ways, it's sort of fertility treatment. So what would it feel physically for me to lie on an electric bed? Would I feel like a little current or shock or static or nothing? We're talking the 17th century, 1790s so there are 100 years away from the light bulb.
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