Not Much Between Despair And Ecstasy
From my Thailand Lonely Planet, emphasis added:
Songkran Niyosane Forensic Medicine Museum. Holy gun shot wound, Batman, this grisly museum will efficiently separate the aspiring doctors from the reluctant patients. One of seven medical museums on the hospital premises, this one's claim to fame is the leathery cadaver of Si Ouey, an infamous Thai serial killer, and other appendages and remnants of famous murders, including the bloodied T-shirt from a victim who was stabbed to death with a dildo, an instrument that usually brings pleasure.
Many thanks to the Lonely Planet people for keeping readers informed as to the proper function of dildos. More importantly, however, THIS IS NOW MY TOP DESTINATION IN BANGKOK. Visiting the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago got me interested in medical museums in general, and I have always wanted to see more. I will do everything in my power to get to this place, and I plan to visit Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, with its "piece of John Wilkes Booth," as soon as possible after I get settled in Providence. I am not exactly one for grisly stuff; I dislike horror movies and, until my recent surgery, was quite squeamish about all manner of medical issues. In spite of (or perhaps more likely because of) my distaste for such things, I have a mild fascination with the weird, the grotesque, and the violent in their more sterile, easily digestible forms: occasionally reading about mass murderers and serial killers, soaking up a lot of information on cults (an almost lifelong interest that I finally owned up to on my profile) and seeking out medical museums and collections of oddities such as that of Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shop or Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, WA.
Japan, of course, has no shortage of the weird and the grotesque, but I have to admit that one thing I am looking forward to about heading back to the States is having better (or at least, easier) access to places such as these. It's going to be awesome, and I am glad to be getting a head start in Bangkok. A dildo-stabbin' head start.
Songkran Niyosane Forensic Medicine Museum. Holy gun shot wound, Batman, this grisly museum will efficiently separate the aspiring doctors from the reluctant patients. One of seven medical museums on the hospital premises, this one's claim to fame is the leathery cadaver of Si Ouey, an infamous Thai serial killer, and other appendages and remnants of famous murders, including the bloodied T-shirt from a victim who was stabbed to death with a dildo, an instrument that usually brings pleasure.
Many thanks to the Lonely Planet people for keeping readers informed as to the proper function of dildos. More importantly, however, THIS IS NOW MY TOP DESTINATION IN BANGKOK. Visiting the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago got me interested in medical museums in general, and I have always wanted to see more. I will do everything in my power to get to this place, and I plan to visit Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, with its "piece of John Wilkes Booth," as soon as possible after I get settled in Providence. I am not exactly one for grisly stuff; I dislike horror movies and, until my recent surgery, was quite squeamish about all manner of medical issues. In spite of (or perhaps more likely because of) my distaste for such things, I have a mild fascination with the weird, the grotesque, and the violent in their more sterile, easily digestible forms: occasionally reading about mass murderers and serial killers, soaking up a lot of information on cults (an almost lifelong interest that I finally owned up to on my profile) and seeking out medical museums and collections of oddities such as that of Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shop or Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, WA.
Japan, of course, has no shortage of the weird and the grotesque, but I have to admit that one thing I am looking forward to about heading back to the States is having better (or at least, easier) access to places such as these. It's going to be awesome, and I am glad to be getting a head start in Bangkok. A dildo-stabbin' head start.