HOUSTON – A fun guessing game turned into an interesting history lesson when a Galveston museum revealed the purpose behind bathing machines used in the during the Georgian or Victorian eras.
Victorian Bathing Machines: So Men Couldn’t Get Their Rocks Off In the 18th and 19th centuries, entire fleets of machines kept beachgoing women from doing the walk of shame. Victorian Bathing Machines ...
In many parts of the world, cleansing one’s body has become an individual, daily ritual – a quick, steamy shower in the morning or a longer bath to unwind at night. But historically, our bathing ...