Stimulated: How Vibrators Became America's Favorite Sex Toy
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The Vibratory Myth
The myth that vibrators were invented to cure female hysteria is perpetuated. The idea was that in hysteria, which is kind of the snambulous thing,. And this is in the late 1800s. Women went to the doctors and the doctor said, oh, you've got hysteria. I know how to cure this. They took out a vibrator and gave them an orgasm," she says. "It's wild how much this myth is perpetuated"
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