Hysterias Made Up

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"This is the first one that i can find that was a major history of vibrators," says host. "The idea that that would happen in e acute fun way is like, almost certainly not", she adds. The story comes from two thousand years ago when women could go to doctors and have sex with their husbands' consent. But it's been embellished by modern-day historians who say there were no such things as 'vibrating featery duste rapertions' on offer at the time.

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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