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Wordsmoker Image Of The Day – The Rythmeter

May 5, 2009 in Wordsmoker Image Of The Day













It’s the “Rythmeter”, created by John C. Rock, professor of gynaecology from Harvard Medical School, circa 1944. Havard’s Center for the History of Medicine has an exhibition of his papers and artefacts – he was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization and co-inventor of the birth control pill.

I’ve been staring at it for about ten minutes, and come to the conclusion that I’m glad to be single because I’m terrible at mathematics.

from Harvard Magazine



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  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/samuraipandapoetry/ samuraipandapoetry

    Calculating Catholics: better tag I’ve yet to see.

    V dub, I’ve also been staring at this for minutes. It looks like a retro board game. And as we all know, retro board games were indeed a gateway to premarital sex, before the advent of television.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    If I’d had to use that, I’d have been with baby all the fucking time.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fracturedacetabulum/ FracturedAcetabulum

    Calculus and cum indeed.

    I have a brother who uses the rhythm method for birth control.

    They’re expecting their third in July.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/samuraipandapoetry/ samuraipandapoetry

    FA: expect a smokie.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    This is an ad for an idea that I had a while ago:

    “In these controversial times, birth control still marches to the forefront of hot bed issues….but it doesn’t have to. What if just prior to the moment of conception, five guys in jumpsuits walked in and started poking the male counterpart of the sexual equation with rattan sticks? Well, you can imagine it would be pretty hard to finish.

    This little scenario hints at the core of the idea of time travel retroactive birth control. Unwanted pregnancies don’t exist because they are stopped prior to conception. Just think of the possibilities!

    We are looking for investors with pioneering sense of entrepreneurial spirit.

    If this is you, come join us! We already have the jumpsuits and rattan sticks on order!”

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/samuraipandapoetry/ samuraipandapoetry

    I’ll take two. One for birth control, the other to control premature ejaculation. It’s two in one! Genius!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/voxpopuli/ VoxPopuli

    Oh the irony! Someone who had the time and inclination to make something like this was probably a math geek who wasn’t getting laid so much.

    Is there an infertile time? I’m an Irish Catholic with 50 first cousins on just one side of my family, so I’ve always assumed the most fertile time is ALWAYS.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/lilyblue/ Lily Blue

    I’d be laughing at this were it not for the fact that I met a guy last night who told me that the legalization of contraception caused a massive increase in the number of sexual predators in the world. I couldn’t quite follow his logic but he believed that available contraception somehow transformed women from potential spouses to potential sexual partners in men’s eyes. He continued to say that this, along with the growth of the Internet and subsequent increased access to pornography caused multitudes of men to develop porn addictions that turned them in to sexual predators.

    No, I didn’t meet this man on Craigslist, if that’s what you were wondering. It was at a work event which is why I refrained from telling him what as an asshole he was. Or asking this strict Catholic why so many Catholic priests turned out to be sexual predators. Must be all that porn they watched in the (e)rectory.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fracturedacetabulum/ FracturedAcetabulum

    @Lily Blue: Did you guys fuck afterward?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/lilyblue/ Lily Blue

    @FA: No. I suspect he went home to indulge in his addiction to porn. Or else his addiction to predatory sexual practices.

    Fortunately I do not have an addiction to assholes. Seriously. I could give them up any time I wanted to.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fracturedacetabulum/ FracturedAcetabulum

    @lily: probly for the best. It wouldn’t have worked out between us anyway.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/hydroceph/ Hydroceph

    John C. Rock. John C. Rock. CROCK

    Just saying.