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In the 19th century there were quite a number of people in Great Britain, the United States and other corners of the world for whom the vibrator was the holy remedy of doctors: the immediate and effective solution to almost all ills, from Headaches even nervous breakdowns. Even for calm down women hysterical with masturbation.
It is a story that gained popularity thanks to films and documentaries, which echoed the vibrator use by the doctors to treat women with hysteriaa term now extinct that covered everything.
But the evidence suggests that this history of the use of mechanical devices, known as vibrators, for the female masturbation, it’s nothing but fiction, refers BBC Mundo in a report on the history of this artifact, which today has become a sex toy to give pleasure
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“Among what we know regarding the history of sexuality, it seems unlikely that doctors did (masturbating his patients as a form of treatment),” says Hallie Lieberman, historian of technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States.
Lieberman disputes the idea that doctors used vibrators to masturbate women to orgasmic hysteria, driven by the book The Technology of Orgasm: “hysteria,” the vibrator, and female sexual satisfactionby historian Rachel Maines, written in 1999.
He maintains that Maines’s theory has questionable grounds. He rejects it in an article published in the Journal of Positive Sexuality. “She presents her theory as if nobody knows what an orgasm is,” says Lieberman. «But already it was known from the clitoris and the sexuality of women at the time».
The vibrator, holy remedy
The truth is that vibrators were marketed for used on the body as a holy remedy, which cured almost all ailments. The brochures advertised their efficacy once morest insomniaparalysis, neuralgia, epilepsy, sciaticalow back pain, gout, deafnessvomiting, constipation, hemorrhoids and sore throats.
The artifact was also good for the liver and even for health problems in children, advertisers claimed.
«Respect to massaging women to orgasm, there is no evidence that this occurred in the doctor’s office,” Lieberman stresses. However, he does not rule out that there have been questionable doctors, who practically harassed their patients. But he maintains that there is no evidence that they will use the vibrators for masturbation as a accepted medical treatment.
Who invented the vibrator as a sex toy?
So, the 64,000 loach question: who invented the vibrator as a sex toy? It is difficult to pinpoint who and since when was generally identified for sexual purposes, historian Hallie Lieberman responds to BBC Mundo.
“The kind of vibrator we know today began to appear in the 50s and it became more common and openly sold in the 1960s,” he says. “But it was still controversial,” he says.
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The truth is at the beginning of the 20th century there was an entire industry dedicated to making those devices: there were them with crank, which evolved into steam-powered models, which in turn became electrically powered objects. And manufacturers focused their efforts on selling them to consumers, rather than directing them to doctors.
maybe the germ of the vibrator associated with sex is in 1903, when a company released an advertisement regarding the Hygeia sex appliance, for men and women. “It looked like a belt with electricity and vibration,” says Lieberman, quoted by BBC Mundo.
Today millions of people buy at least one sex toy. “I changed the chip,” recalls a 29-year-old single woman, who decided for the first time to buy a vibrator during confinement March 2020 in France, despite their prejudices and psychological barriersreview Deutsche Welle (DW).
And it is that the distancing by COVID-19 triggered since the beginning of the pandemic the sale of sex toys in the world, according to brands consulted by the AFP, cited by DW.
In any case, the supply of sex toys in the world is wide, particularly vibrators. Nor do they stop cause controversy. Companies even began to rethink these objects, telling them goodbye to phallic and not very ergonomic shapesrefers DW.
With information from BBC Mundo y DW
Writing El PitazoHealth
Writing El PitazoHealth