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Stimulated: How Vibrators Became America's Favorite Sex Toy

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The electric vibrator was patented by a British doctor in the early 1880s. How its use evolved from then to now is a story that intersects with politics and medicine. Sex historian Halle Lieberman traces that evolution in her book Buzz, the stimulating history of the sex toy.

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