Hysteria at the Basement Yotoal

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Doctors invented vibrators to use on women to cure them of their hysteria. In 20 11, a movie is made about doctor granville, the inventor of the vibrator. The story has like nine to five style rom com written all over it, totally. These women cand of taking advantage of these clueless dudes. They think it's all about medicine. It's like extremely, like, salacious. And it becomes fun and whacky enough that in 2011, a movie was made about doctor Granville,. And it's called hysteria. Hysteria at the downstairs yotoal.

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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