Is It a Myth or a Myth?

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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"

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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