John Brownlee

Model Trains Get More Adult

The link between trains and sex has long been obvious, thanks to the famous ‘train passing through a tunnel’ metaphor employed by Hayes Code Era directors as shorthand for off-screen vaginal penetration. But mysteriously, this sexual metaphor has not been explored in the exciting world of toy model trains for small children. Until now. Model […]

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The link between trains and sex has long been obvious, thanks to the famous 'train passing through a tunnel' metaphor employed by Hayes Code Era directors as shorthand for off-screen vaginal penetration. But mysteriously, this sexual metaphor has not been explored in the exciting world of toy model trains for small children.

Until now. Model train enthusiasts, start getting excited: the Viessmanncompany has finally gotten the memo.

One new item in the Viessmann company's catalog is called "Sexy Lovers in Motion." A man and a woman are having sex on a red blanket, in the missionary position. The man moves his buttocks and needs between 14 and 16 volt to do so, AC or DC.

It's all part of a new moment in surrealism in the model train industry, as exhibited at the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, which also includes bazooka-toting terrorists a nudist protests.

International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany [Spiegel] (Thanks, Leander!)