Edward VII’s seat of love
is still in active use. sean thomas is given a lesson in oral history
Iam loitering in a sex museum in Prague. Amidst the chastity belts and pre-war dildos stands this... thing. It looks like an instrument of medieval torture; or a commode for an incontinent Chinese warlord.
Yet it turns out to be something way more bizarre than this - what I am ogling is the fauteuil d'amour, the famous "armchair of love". It's a chair specifically designed by a top French furniture-maker, so an English King could have sex with two or more prostitutes. Looking at the surreal object, it's hard to work out how.
The king was Edward VII: he used the chair when he visited the opulent brothel of Le Chabanais,
