Yatome - The First Vibratory

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There is a story that credits cleopatra with the invention of the first vibrator. Yatome kept agitated bees in a hollow gourd, and then the bees created the vibration inside the gourd. None of this makes any sense. It sounds like it was invented by someone who knows less about the female downstairs than i do. The last little nugget of sex tway history is from 19 65. We didn't have silicone dildos andildo, not silicone. No, we had rubber prior to that. So if you have a silicone sex toy, you can thank this disabled activist for inventing it.

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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