What's the Difference Between a Sex Toy and an Obscene Ad?

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The ad says, here's health and power, vim and vigor. And then, what the fuck? There's a big suit case with a bunch of tools in it that looks like a time machine. How were people even using this as a sex toy? So this is the dispute was, like, were these ads under cover ads for sex toys or were they really being marketed for all of these purposes?"

It's a sexual health episode! This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the hotly debated medical history of vibrators and ask: who fact-checks the fact-checkers?

Note: A previous version of this episode included language that referred to “the female downstairs,” implying both that gender is linked to genitals (it isn’t) and that vibrators were used primarily by cis women (they weren’t). We love our trans listeners and we don’t want to do anything that makes them feel excluded, so we’ve removed the sections where that language appeared. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike

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