The hysteria and vibrators

Eye: This week I'm busy I'm not the "owner" hmmm ... what are some of my friends bloggers, helping me with their stories. The today ( 'Good Vibrations' ) is an original entry Foghorns , a blog that has achieved a high (and well-deserved) popularity in the blockhouse, thanks to its good performance. I enclosure of having recommended many times. Thanks!


By 1880, tired of manually masturbate their patients, Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville patented the first electromechanical vibrator phallic shape. During the nineteenth century, the clitoris massage is considered the only appropriate treatment against hysteria, so that hundreds of women come each day to your doctor to massage the area and they will induce a "hysterical paroxysm", now known as orgasm.

Hysteria, alleged that the Greeks had disease described "ardent uterus, becomes a kind of plague amongst women of the time. Any strange behavior - anxiety, irritability, sexual fantasies - is seen as a clear symptom and the patient is sent immediately to receive a relaxing massage. At the end of XIX the number of women attending the consultation is such that doctors are finally beginning to tire the hand and to invent all kinds of artifacts that will save the job.

The variety of vibrators that time is overwhelming, many models are powered by electricity, others run on batteries or gas, including some that are designed to operate pedals ((doctor must imagine pedaling like Marco Painting to provide your patient to ration for hysterical relief)). The devices have speeds ranging from 1000-7000 strokes per minute and soon prices are becoming affordable for home use. Models such as the "Universal Barker," the "Gyro-Lator" or "Miracle Ball" begin to be marketed through national newspapers. "Vibration is life" - pray some ads - "For You, woman, you are entitled to not be sick."

In many catalogs female vibrator is advertised as "a tool for women's stress and anxiety." Its use is promoted as a way to keep women relaxed and content. "The vibration provides life and vigor, strength and beauty" - the ads say - "The secret of youth has been discovered in Vibration." Your marketing reaches such an extreme that some models include a spare adapter that converts the vibrator in a mixer.

Despite what may seem to us today, in those years the application of the vibrator on the clitoris is held by a medical practice exclusively. On the anthropocentric conception of the time, not having contact with the inside of the vagina, it is considered that there is no sexual contact. The problems and taboos begin later, after 1920, when the best vibrators are in the first pornographic films. From then on, the vibrator begins to lose its image of medical instrument and acquire negative connotations, to keep the character that is somewhat murky today.