You guys ready for this one? note the word "keyhole"
"Groping the Pope:
Being pope used to require real balls – and the one chosen actually had to prove it!
Somewhere in the Vatican Museum is said to be a most unusual throne.
"The "sedia stercoraria" in the Vatican Museum.
It is kept in a small room with no mention of its infamous past role.
It's a strange object. There is, for a start, something curious about its proportions. The seat is very high and has cut into it a keyhole shape, the stem open to the front. On closer examination it could be an elderly, rather grand commode, once used by popes…. However, the chair back is at a curious reclining angle, far too relaxed, it would seem, for any practical bodily movement. And the legs, too, are unusual… leaving the centre, under the keyhole, open and uncluttered."
Variously known as the sedia stercoraria – which translates as the 'dung chair'– or rather more understandably, as the 'pierced chair', this then was the object used to test the sex of newly installed popes… Any candidate chosen by his peers to occupy the papal throne was required, before his election could be verified, to sit on this elaborate seat while a young cardinal took advantage of the design to touch his testicles."
You just can't make this stuff up!