{"id":558,"date":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lovenselife.com\/uncategorized\/history-of-vibrators"},"modified":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","slug":"history-of-vibrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovense.com\/sex-blog\/sex-toys\/history-of-vibrators","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Jumpy History of Vibrators and Victorian Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #bdc3c7;\">Image by&nbsp;Prawny&nbsp;from&nbsp;Pixabay&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could go all the way back to Cleopatra\u2019s supposed gourd of bees and how it was the first-ever vibrator, but let\u2019s skip that flimsy piece of history and jump to something more mechanized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also no chronological order or test afterward \u2013 just a list of interesting facts or hearsay that will make a few minutes of your day more survivable, and your next cocktail party a chance to show off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d70072\"><strong>Our current understanding of vibrator history is this\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">Two doctors have been given or taken credit for being the inventors of the first mechanical vibrator &#8211;<em> Romain Vigouroux <\/em>, the Paris Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re hospital (1878), and an English physician, <em><span style=\"text-underline: none;\">Joseph Mortimer Granville<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-variant-caps: normal;\"><span style=\"orphans: 2;\"><span style=\"widows: 2;\"><span style=\"text-decoration-style: initial;\"><span style=\"text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"float: none;\"><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px;\"> (who now is called the father of the modern electromechanical vibrator).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><em>\u201cThe Technology of Orgasm\u201d<\/em> was written by <em>Rachel Maines <\/em>in 1999.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Her book stated doctors would diagnose women with \u201chysteria\u201d \u2013 this could include shortness of breath, anxiety, fainting, nervousness, insomnia, sexual forwardness, irritability, agitation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">The solution to this was to induce \u201c<i>hysterical paroxysm<\/i>\u201d by giving the patient a \u201c<i>pelvic massage<\/i>.\u201d (a.k.a, an orgasm)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Hysterical paroxysm and the old usage of hysteria are now defunct medical terms.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Fun fact, the Greek <i>hystera<\/i> means &#8216;uterus.&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Another claim was that the invention of the first vibrator was because doctors were getting tired from having to \u2026 deliver pelvic massages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VU5TosljBxc\" width=\"660\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">However\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">Recent studies and papers (one being from historian Hallie Lieberman) have uncovered that this might not be true \u2013 the machine was real but they questioned the sexual uses.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">The arguments on the validity of Maines\u2019 research came from the lack of English citations or hard evidence as well as other medical practices and mentalities of the era.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">Maines\u2019 response was that her book simply presenting a hypothesis (despite that actual wording being more concrete as it the information\u2019s reality). <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">For example, it\u2019s now known that Victorian doctors KNEW about female orgasms and the link to the clitoris \u2013 they just thought it was a bad idea (because god forbid women has sexual pleasure). The focus was always on male sexual power, performance, health, and priority.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">That being said, contraptions like this WERE made and they WERE used in medicine. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">Adverts promised everything from the cure of headaches to rheumatism. They also came with many, many attachments for various ailments. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d70072\"><span style=\"font-size: 26px;\"><b>WHY THE PERSISTING MYTH?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I look at it this way \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">People can make anything sexual (yes, even the buttoned-up lads and ladies of the Victorian era). <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">While these devices certainly existed and were definitely used by doctors, it takes no stretch of the imagination to think that someone would have experimented or thought of using the vibrations in \u201cother ways\u201d \u2013 it would be an entirely different conversation whether those uses were consensual, violating, and\/or unethically experimental. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">During the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, there were even obscenity laws put out there telling companies they couldn\u2019t advertise such things for sexual pleasure. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">How they adapted to adult play instead of medical? Just like every other \u201ccatch-all\u201d treatment, doo-dad, or medicine, doctors found out there weren\u2019t really \u201ccatch-all\u201d at all. Hence, they stop buying them in large quantities or at all.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\">So what do you do if you\u2019re a company with a product you can\u2019t sell anymore? Find another market.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\">What was your first vibrator? 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