In 20 17, Rachel maines published a book called buzz, the stimulating y of the sex toy. Halley liberman is a historian of sex and gender at the georgia institute of technology. Liberman argues that vibrators were used for a broad range of conditions. Vibrators are being used to induce labor whowever granville himself used them to treat constipation, diabetes, aches and on women's bodies. The geniral use that lieberman finds as much as they were used sexually, was applied to men's pereneums.
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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