Forget Tutankhamun or the Basilica of the Holy Blood , this is the only object a museum needs : The member of a humans who get an hard-on while being executed by hang .
The prized member was late acquired by theViktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities , Fine Art & Natural Historyin Hackney , London . The artefact costs more than £ 100,000 ( $ 128,000 ) to corrupt , so the museum is currently rent it for £ 2,500 ( $ 3,200 ) . The phallus , aka " the world ’s longest standing erection " , will remain on show for the next twelvemonth .
" It was remove from an eighteenth century Englishman who was hang , " Viktor Wynd , the museum ’s curator , toldMailOnline . " When citizenry were hang they ’d almost always get hard-on and almost always release their seminal fluid . "
Indeed , death by hang is often reported to be tight surveil by a boner . The phenomenon , informally known as “ backer lust ” , is often attributed to pressure on the cerebellum created by the noose “ exciting ” the nerves .
The bookThe Evaluation of Sexual Disorders : Psychological and Medical Aspectsnotes : " Men subject to capital punishment by hang and laboratory animals sacrificed with cervical breakdown have last hard-on . The implication is that either central inhibition of erecting is free and erecting created or that a sudden massive spinal corduroy stimulus yield an cavernous reception . There is rich data-based and clinical grounds to support the former supposition . "
Themuseum is modelledon the idea of a“cabinet of curiosity”,also known as a “ Wunderkammern ” . These establishment were popular during Renaissance Europe as an early predecessor to the forward-looking museum . The intention of these places was not to catalog and educate , like a modern museum , but alternatively to chevvy curiosity and boast the wealth of the collector .
As such , this type of " museum " was often fill with pseudoscientific object with no mien in realness . The authenticity of this object has not been verified by independent author , however Wynd claims there is some historical grounds to advise that this could be the real deal .
Wynd added : “ eubstance parts were frequent perquisite of public executioner and many different parts were suppose to have magical properties . For model , there is something called the ' Hands of Glory ' – which is the mummified script of fall men which were believed to be exceedingly herculean . ”
Keeping in this vein , the Viktor Wynd Museum is filled with a portmanteau of oddities from the fields of practice of medicine , 19th - C pseudoscience , and the raw world . Other collectionsincludetaxidermy , old medical equipment , ancient Chinese sex toys , extinct snort feathers , McDonald ’s Happy Meal Toys , bizarre artifacts of modern pop culture , and pretty much anything that ’s downright quirky .
