 It's the 1700s. Electricity has just been discovered, and all around Europe there are public demonstrations being held to showcase the wonders of this new technology. A young poet and physicist called George Matthias Bose also decides to join the rat race. He invents a couple of things to do with electricity, including something called the electric kiss. And in order to introduce the electric kiss to the public, Bose decides to choreograph an entire show. He calls it the Venus electrificata. It's all very dramatic, and he choreographs it very carefully. So for each show he would hire a beautiful woman for the demonstration. First he would make sure that she was fully insulated from the electrical current and this would be done either by suspending her midair or he would make her stand on a platform that was made of a special plank. He would then attach her to his electrical circuit and finally her lips would be coated with a substance that was a good conductor of electricity. And once it was all set up, audience members would then be invited on to stage to kiss the girl. As you can imagine the men would line up to try this. A description of the event says that as the men would bring their lips close to hers there would be a violent discharge of electricity and the astonished public would then see an actual flash of lightning between the mouths of the two people. But it would generally leave the men having literally received the shock of their lives somewhat knocked out and breathless. However there was one man apparently who was strong enough to not have been knocked breathless and he recorded his reactions immediately afterwards and he says that with the power of the shock the pain hit me from up close, my lips were quaking, my mouth twisted and my teeth almost broke. It was very exciting. Okay clearly we have very different ideas of what a kiss should feel like but wait story apart, tell me the honest truth. If you had been in the audience how many of you would have lined up to go and try this?