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Vibrators

Maintenance Phase

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Is It a Myth or a Myth?

LZ Granderson: It's hard to figure out how one historian could look at a primary source and go, aha, doctors invented vibrators to use on women who were hysterical. LZ: The overwhelming plurality of primary sources that we do have are about really class privileged white women. He says the blanks getting filled in here are getting filled in by a boomer, white woman. "I don't know what it is, but i don't think it's this, right? Which also feels like a very millennial critique"

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