Mouth pear
The mouth pear , also called torture pear or spreader pear , is an instrument of torture and belongs to the so-called skull screws . It consists of two or more spoon-shaped bowls that are folded together in the eponymous pear shape and connected to one another at the tapered end. Inside there is a simple threading mechanism that allows the parts to be pushed apart by moving the thread accordingly, usually with a screw at the tapered end.
Aside from the painful locking of the jaw, which this device brought with it, it could also be stretched so far that teeth or jaws broke. In 18th century psychiatry , the use of simpler, more rigid models to prevent patients from speaking was common, but it was still possible to roar.
Today there are replicas of the historical oral pear in the BDSM area, which are used as a gag or to stretch the anus and vagina.
In the history of German literature, the mouth pear also appears in a metaphorical meaning. a. in the novel by Friedrich Ernst Peters The dry Trina. History of a "Poahr Dangoaß" (1946), in which the name "Poahr Dangoaß", the corruption of poire d'angoisse (French for mouth pear), refers to the instrument of torture. Poahr Dangoass is used here for both the stingy Trina's bad-tasting pears and for the heroine herself, who annihilates her brother and husband with her greed.
