I've been thinking about it, and while it seems absurd to have someone committed for masturbating, we don't know the circumstances. Maybe they were caught whacking off to grandma undressing or beating it while watching neighborhood kids playing out the window. I'd find either one disturbing and I'd rather have the latter put away before he started touching those kids. You just never know the details. If you read about people like Theodore Frank and Joseph Kallinger you would understand where abnormal sexual fixations can lead. Then there's Cesar Barone. Who would think someone would be turned on by old ladies? There is something wrong there and if I found my son doing either one I'd want help for him too. I realize that those asylums were never really "help", who knew any better at the time?

I absolutely love this!

looks like a robot from a '50s sci-fi movie

Dette what would you do with all the rapists, murders, and child molesters? They are put in these places because they were anything but "humane" to others. Why should they be treated better than their victims? Chris Rock had a better idea of what to do with them, check it out.

buddha's right

My elementary school's powdered soap wasn't even pink, it was brown and gritty. I always wondered why they wanted us to wash our hands with sawdust.

Pigeons and Nosferatu?

Could Scarlet still use those?

Is that a sheet on the bed? Do bums carry their own sheets with them?

Had a friend who "rescued" an old piano. It was full of roaches

I saw a show once where a hidden camera caught an orderly in a nursing home line up a patients wheelchair a few feet from his bed, then he stomped on the footrest of the chair and the old man flew through the air and landed on the bed. The orderly obviously had been doing it awhile. It's absolutely horrible but I must admit when I first saw it I nearly pissed my pants laughing so hard. I fell bad now. This photo reminds me of that.

That would make a beautiful Christmas card I think

Too cool!

could have been part of Dracula's castle without that silly thing on top

They call those tests "Pulmonary Function Testing". I have to endure them every 3 months. It actually looks rather benign in this photo compared to the hell it puts me through.

Perhaps the lack of privacy here was to deter further masterbatory endeavors, Ed?

Sweed it looks like that was for the gynecological part of the chair session.

would love 2 hear your story star!

How scary is that thing supposed to be in a turtleneck?