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5-06-2003



Every year an award is given for the best British Female Inventor. And every year the award seems to go to women who have invented things for "traditional women's roles."

They call it the philosophy of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church, Kitchen). For example, this year's overall winner was Patricia Lynn Fearn, for her ergonomically efficient double-shafted fork for cleaning out stables. Just what all women need, right?

But there was one winner who surprised everyone. Liz Paul shook up the ceremony by leaving the kitchen and hitting the bedroom, with her invention of a finger-powered stimulator.

She calls it Vielle. It's basically a carefully designed and lubricated thimble made from latex. Its ribs, protrusions and hollows are designed to accommodate and stimulate the female anatomy.

According to Vielle's website: "Stimulation is primarily supplied by the nodules on the face of Vielle. Research ascertained the size, shape, rigidity and positioning of these nodules. The final design was that which optimised stimulation and produced the most pleasurable sensations."

The Vielle geniuses also added a small hollow at the centre of Vielle, to keep the lubrication gel in place. It doesn't need batteries and cleaning isn't a problem, as Vielle is disposable. And you don't even need a prescription.

Vielle is similar to the Fukuoku, but much more carefully designed and the fact that batteries are unnecessary makes it more attractive.

And research has shown that Paul's design works. The simple device was tested by volunteers found by Professor Alan Riley, professor of sexual medicine at the University of Central Lancashire. The device is approved by the Medical Devices Agency.

In Riley's trial, the women who used Vielle achieved orgasm two to three times quicker than those without it and the proportion of those achieving orgasm increased from 83 to 95 percent.

Doctors believe that up to 70 percent of women suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction. If this is true, then thank god that a ridged, lubed thimble can help some women solve their problems.

Any way you look at it, Vielle is much more fun than a fork to clean a stable. Perhaps the judges of Britain's Female Inventor Awards are realizing that just because women take care of children, cook and clean, they might not want anymore inventions dealing with those things.

Who knows? Maybe next year they'll change it to the philosophy of Children, Church, Kitchen, and Copulating.

Vielle is available from the manufacturers: CST Medical, of Shipley, Yorkshire BD17 7DW or check their website: www.vielle.info.

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