Chinese hedgehog

English

Noun

Chinese hedgehog (plural Chinese hedgehogs)

  1. (obsolete) A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
  2. (obsolete) A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse.
    • 1898, ‘Jacobus X’, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, volume I, Paris: Charles Carrington, page 97:
      In the first place let us describe the “Chinese hedge-hog”. This is a wreath of fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made in various sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over the gland, when the penis is not in erection, and small enough to be stopped by the ring of the gland when the penis is erect. This machine sensibly increases the size of the penis, aud [sic] it will be easily understood that the friction of the feathers against the mucous surface of the vagina produces sensations of a peculiar effect.
    • 1904, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, page 84:
      Somewhat similar is the “Chinese hedge-hog,” a wreath of fine soft feathers with the quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, which is slipped over the glans.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
      Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.
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