Some books are so iconic that their plots are known the world over, even if most people haven't read them. Like, say, Gulliver's Travels -- you probably know it's about a giant living in a land of tiny people (and vice versa), but probably don't know that it's all a detailed satire of 18th century society. So when people actually sit down and read the books they've always heard about, they find themselves blindsided by the hardcore sexual depravity everyone so often fails to mention.

5 In Gulliver's Travels, Giants Use Gulliver as a Human Sex Toy

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The Book

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a classic of the Western canon in which protagonist Lemuel Gulliver journeys to fantastical lands like Lilliput, an island country where the residents are less than 6 inches tall. What most movie and cartoon adaptations of this tale tend to leave out, however, is the part about giant dongs.

The Filth

When Gulliver visits Lilliput, an army of little men walk under his legs and point and gawk in admiration of his gigantic genitals. Which, we suppose, is the only circumstance when you'd want a shocked crowd pointing at your junk.

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"That's right, citizens. I call him Li'l Gulliver."

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And after leaving Lilliput (with visions of his gargantuan schlong), Gulliver ends up in Brobdingnag, a land where everyone is a giant. Gulliver appears roughly 6 inches tall to them, making him Ant-Man to the Brobdingnagians. And here's where we get the other part the children's book edition of the story tends to leave out: tiny Gulliver being used as a sex toy.



"Astounding! Let's use him for sex."

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In Brobdingnag, some of the queen's maids see no problem with stripping naked, changing in front of Gulliver, and even resting him on their bosoms. Gulliver gives a pretty horrifying account of their skin blemishes and large pores, and even the terrible odors emanating from their bodies, which will knock the wind out of anyone's boner-sails. One maid puts Gulliver right on her nipple, which will no doubt afford some of you many an exhilarating masturbation fantasy tonight. But the worst by far was when poor Gully was used as a sex toy to pleasure the maids -- he mentions "many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over particular." So hey, he and Ant-Man really do have something in common!