The Man's Book

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The book is a history technology written by a historian of techno. It argues that the primary treatment for hysteria was genital massage to the point of histe ical paroxysm. The author says vibrators were primarily understood as sexual in nature, but they were marketed using this thing she calls social camouflage.

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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