vibrators since 1869

[grrrly]

musuem of vibrators

searching for a vibe for kitte i ran across this site...it has pics of vibrators since the late 19th century...now we have to think of our great grandmothers and....

 

[alexandraaah]

No, we really don't have to think of that.

 

[blooflame]

Is that why....

you're half out of the picture in your AV? Because one of those ancient vibrators shook your chair like a 5.2 Richter-scale quake?

I love the look in the AV...

 

[grrrly]

Re: Is that why....

you're half out of the picture in your AV? Because one of those ancient vibrators shook your chair like a 5.2 Richter-scale quake?

I love the look in the AV...

lol...no i'm hiding my ugly side

 

[SimGuy]

Re: Re: Is that why....

lol...no i'm hiding my ugly side

So your ugly side is somewhat less than devastatingly awesome??

 

[LukkyKnight]

Re: Re: Is that why....

lol...no i'm hiding my ugly side

Yeah, right.

 

[grrrly]

Re: Re: Re: Is that why....

So your ugly side is somewhat less than devastatingly awesome??

sweet talker

 

[SimGuy]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Is that why....

sweet talker

Thanks! But I really am not a sweet talker. Actually the anti-thesis of the sweet talker. I'm an engineer. I was simply making an observation of the obvious.

If I can recognize something as attractive, it is certainly attractive to everyone else as well.

 

[Weird Harold]

musuem of vibrators

...now we have to think of our great grandmothers and....

From the website above:

Physicians employed vibrating devices in the treatment of "hysteria," which they viewed as the most common health complaint among women of the day. Hysteria was a medical term developed to describe a woman's display of mental or emotional distress, behavior then considered a disease in need of treatment. Though the existence of hysteria as a disease was debunked by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952, medical experts from the time of Hippocrates up to the 20th century believed that hysteria expressed the womb's revolt against sexual deprivation. Genital massage was a standard treatment for hysteria; its objective was to induce "hysterical paroxysm" (better known as orgasm) in the patient. Such treatment demanded both manual dexterity and a fair amount of time, so turn-of-the-century physicians were delighted with the efficiency, convenience and reliability of portable vibrators.

Sad that Granma had to go to the doctor to get satisfaction.

Aren't you glad medical science has advanced that doctors don't do this anymore?

 

[morninggirl5]

The ad copy for these vibrators was coy and ambiguous. "Be a glow getter," one package insert suggests. And who wouldn't be tempted to experience "that delicious, thrilling health-restoring sensation called vibration," when assured that "it makes you fairly tingle with the joy of living"? The vibrator's usefulness for masturbation was never acknowledged; however, as vibrators began appearing in stag films of the 1920s, it became difficult to ignore their sexual function. Probably as a result, advertisements for vibrators gradually disappeared from respectable publications.

Tingle with the joy of living.

Yeah, i like that description.