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from the turn of the 20th century sex
has been literally electrified by
technology one of the first five
electric gadgets
besides the sewing machine fan toaster
and tea kettle was a plug in sexual
stimulator the vibrator was a cure-all
for a series of mysterious complaints
collectively called hysteria that
plagued Victorian era women any woman
who was experiencing stress any woman
frankly who was violating Victorian
gendered norms who was too uppity who
was too confident
who was dissatisfied with her husband
she would very likely be diagnosed as
hysterical there was a sort of a
philosophy of medicine that hysteria
emanated from a block in women sex organ
these physicians would actually manually
stimulate the women crazy
initially the procedure called for a
doctor to massage the clitoris to the
point of orgasm thereby relieving the
built-up pressure thought to cause
hysteria it was not considered
fallacious in any waves considered
completely modern scientific victorian
medicine in the treatment of hysteria
if the doctor did that today he or she
should be arrested and escorted away
immediately
it was so impossible for these Victorian
physicians to imagine that women were
sexual that they had a sex drive but the
treatment fails if the doctor doesn’t
have the right touch or stamina I
actually think the doctors probably
weren’t that good at bringing women to
orgasm when they were helping women come
to orgasm their hands got tired like a
lot of manual tasks that are difficult
and possibly onerous it was mechanized
and so was born the vibrator one early
version was a tabletop model designed
for the doctor’s office and powered by a
steam engine then in 1902 Hamilton Beach
introduced the first personal vibrator
just the fifth domestic appliance to be
electrified
[Music]
from the turn of the 20th century sex
has been literally electrified by
technology one of the first five
electric gadgets
besides the sewing machine fan toaster
and tea kettle was a plug in sexual
stimulator the vibrator was a cure-all
for a series of mysterious complaints
collectively called hysteria that
plagued Victorian era women any woman
who was experiencing stress any woman
frankly who was violating Victorian
gendered norms who was too uppity who
was too confident
who was dissatisfied with her husband
she would very likely be diagnosed as
hysterical there was a sort of a
philosophy of medicine that hysteria
emanated from a block in women sex organ
these physicians would actually manually
stimulate the women crazy
initially the procedure called for a
doctor to massage the clitoris to the
point of orgasm thereby relieving the
built-up pressure thought to cause
hysteria it was not considered
fallacious in any waves considered
completely modern scientific victorian
medicine in the treatment of hysteria
if the doctor did that today he or she
should be arrested and escorted away
immediately
it was so impossible for these Victorian
physicians to imagine that women were
sexual that they had a sex drive but the
treatment fails if the doctor doesn’t
have the right touch or stamina I
actually think the doctors probably
weren’t that good at bringing women to
orgasm when they were helping women come
to orgasm their hands got tired like a
lot of manual tasks that are difficult
and possibly onerous it was mechanized
and so was born the vibrator one early
version was a tabletop model designed
for the doctor’s office and powered by a
steam engine then in 1902 Hamilton Beach
introduced the first personal vibrator
just the fifth domestic appliance to be
electrified
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