This is a mojo extractor, central to the plot of the Hollywood spoof film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, wherein the villainous Fat Bastard uses this device to relieve the libidinous hero of his precious juices while he lies helpless in a cryogenically frozen state, c.1969.
Thirty years later, and Powers thaws out in bed but realises that he has lost his mojo and must travel back to the ’60s (in a VW Beetle time machine) to retrieve it from chief baddie, Doctor Evil, who prizes it as “the life force, the essence, the right stuff, what the French call, a certain I don’t know...”.
For the spitefully undersexed, it would be the perfect device to level the playing fields at parties the world over, but of course it is only a film prop, and an expensive one at that, bringing £750 (plus 17.5 per cent premium).
Powers of persuasion
UK: IF you stood fuming on the cocktail party sidelines over the festive season as your wife/husband got on famously with a lecherous member of the opposite sex, then something like this oversized (18in) metal syringe and vial which appeared at Christie's South Kensington on December 12, would have come in rather useful.
