Benjamin Franklin and the red-hot dildo

I knew Franklin was capable of risque language and stories. There are entire books devoted to his essays. But I never encountered this one before. Definitely not stuff I learnerd in High School History.

From Philip Dray’s Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (p. 132:

1.) Pithily stated

2.) Apparently this guy must actually have existed – it looks as if Franklin didn’t make him up for the story.

3.) I had no idea that the British still wanted the colonies to pay for the stamps printed even after they relented. That never made it into my histories.

4.) Reading the book, Franklin had been living in England for over a decade and wasn’t home until after Lexington and Concord. He was back in Paris by Christmas of 1776. That means he just barely had time to be involved in the whole Continental Congress-Declaration of Independence-1776 stuff, and must have been a bit out of touch with the colonists at first.

Interesting stuff I’d never heard or read before. It pays to go over history from time to time. By the way, until I read this book, I had no idea that Franklin’s wife was common-law, and that her name was Deborah. Truly one of the invisible women of history.

[BenFranklin] ‘Early to bed and Early to rise,
Gives more pumping time between Deborah’s thighs’? No, that’ll never do. [/BenFranklin]

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Ah . . . That was one of my favorite children’s books . . .

What makes you think this? I can’t see anything in what you posted to suggest this was anything other than a tall tale told for amusement and illustration.