I had some fun with names in my 'Mistress of the Air' series. It is a comic, Steampunk story with a lot of BDSM kink so a genre that lent itself to creating some silly names. The principal character is Edwardian dominatrix Lady Sally Rudston-Chichester (actually a mash up of two real Yorkshire (UK) families, the Chichester-Constables and Rudston-Calverleys). She takes her airship, 'The Corseted Domme' across Europe having various kinky adventures.
So, there is a German automaton manufacturer, Ernst von Siemen; an Austrian Princess, Maria Labiastein; a Prussian military commander, Archduke von Hardonberg; a Russian aristocrat, Count Clitovsky and three anarchists, Dimitri Bollokov, Sophia Testlikova and Pieter Krapotkin; a Polish lesbian dwarf, Kina Linguzh; Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Shagazade and member of the Neapolitan mafia, Signore Fellatio.
The name of Lady Sally's automaton sex doll is Borghild. This is an interesting one because there is a background to the name. Whilst researching I stumbled across a story about a toy designed to satisfy the sexual needs of Nazi army officers. This was a scheme inspired by Heinrich Himmler in 1940 called the Borghild project. Apparently, there was huge concern about an epidemic of syphilis amongst the German troops. It seems the greatest danger to them was the widespread presence of whores in the brothels of Paris. The project involved distributing inflatable sex dolls to the troops. These could be transported in back-packs and produced whenever relief was needed so the troops wouldn’t visit Paris prostitutes. Adolf Hitler allegedly approved the project. Naturally, the doll had appropriately Aryan features and blonde hair. The sex-doll was supposedly distributed to some officers but the project was cancelled because the soldiers refused to carry the sex doll in fear of embarrassment if they were captured and found with one.
It’s a fantastic story, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s urban myth or fake news. There’s stuff on the internet that reports this story as fact but no evidence for it other than a couple of photographs of said sex-doll believed to have been produced long after the 1940s. A shame, I know, but it’s almost certainly a hoax. But it's a great story and I couldn't resist the temptation of giving Lady Sally's brass sex doll the same name!
So, there is a German automaton manufacturer, Ernst von Siemen; an Austrian Princess, Maria Labiastein; a Prussian military commander, Archduke von Hardonberg; a Russian aristocrat, Count Clitovsky and three anarchists, Dimitri Bollokov, Sophia Testlikova and Pieter Krapotkin; a Polish lesbian dwarf, Kina Linguzh; Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Shagazade and member of the Neapolitan mafia, Signore Fellatio.
The name of Lady Sally's automaton sex doll is Borghild. This is an interesting one because there is a background to the name. Whilst researching I stumbled across a story about a toy designed to satisfy the sexual needs of Nazi army officers. This was a scheme inspired by Heinrich Himmler in 1940 called the Borghild project. Apparently, there was huge concern about an epidemic of syphilis amongst the German troops. It seems the greatest danger to them was the widespread presence of whores in the brothels of Paris. The project involved distributing inflatable sex dolls to the troops. These could be transported in back-packs and produced whenever relief was needed so the troops wouldn’t visit Paris prostitutes. Adolf Hitler allegedly approved the project. Naturally, the doll had appropriately Aryan features and blonde hair. The sex-doll was supposedly distributed to some officers but the project was cancelled because the soldiers refused to carry the sex doll in fear of embarrassment if they were captured and found with one.
It’s a fantastic story, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s urban myth or fake news. There’s stuff on the internet that reports this story as fact but no evidence for it other than a couple of photographs of said sex-doll believed to have been produced long after the 1940s. A shame, I know, but it’s almost certainly a hoax. But it's a great story and I couldn't resist the temptation of giving Lady Sally's brass sex doll the same name!