Strange history of Vibrators and Sex Toys..

This is the most amazing and counter-intuitive story I have read in a long time. It is not as you would think.. the origin of tools for sexual stimulation for women have a rather therapeutic history.. not something that you would think of generally associated with these contraptions 🙂

Mention vibrators, and most people think of women’s sexual pleasure. But that was the furthest thing from the minds of the male doctors who invented them more than a century ago. They were more interested in a labor-saving device to spare their own hands the fatigue caused by treating “female hysteria.” This condition involved a number of vague, chronic complaints in adult women, including: anxiety, sleeplessness, irritability, nervousness, erotic fantasies, and moisture inside the vagina. Female hysteria was actually women’s sexual frustration. The history of vibrators is a strange tale that provides insights into both the history of sex toys, and cultural notions about women’s sexuality.

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