Nice, Sophie. 

Ever listen to Lenny Bruce?

One of my favourites is The Boat, which was practiced in the Land of Olive Oil & Buggery long ago.
Place your beloved enemy on his back in a shallow pit. Make sure he can't move a muscle. (I like to cut off his lips and eyelids, but that's a modern innovation.)
Cover your enemy halfway up with milk and honey.
Place a boat over the pit and leave him to scream in the dark.
Come back to force feed him once in a while - he could live for months! While you're there, have a nice cup of coffee and count the maggots, flesh-eating bugs and blood-sucking worms crawling in and out of his nose, mouth, ears and eyes. Take bets on which parts of him get eaten first, and which ones get left to last.

What's with people forgetting the word for "gibbet?" Why did that ever leave our arsenal of confession implements? Terrorists will always tell us the locations of their secret bases when their eyes are being pecked out.

Tower of London has a nice display as well.

Decadence wrote:

12. The Pear
Hinging on your gender, the pear was either placed in your anus or your vagina in its thin form and then cranked to open up and blossom into a rather uncomfortable position.

Their description here makes it sound more like a sex toy.

Oh, but it was a sex toy. As much fun to give as to get. The experience can only be described as...fructal.