Dildos have always been recognized as purely sexual but not so the new invention, the vibrator. For most of their history, their sexual purpose has been disguised as "massage therapy."
The first vibrators were developed 130 years ago to treat an illness called "female hysteria." The word hysteria comes from the Greek for "suffering uterus." This usually involved anxiety, sexual fantasies, "pelvic heaviness" and "excessive" vaginal lubrication -- in other words, sexual. Now remember that this was during the Victorian era, when women were not considered sexual beings. The standard treatment for hysteria was for the Physicians to massage their patients' clitoris until they experienced relief through "paroxysm". Could this be called an orgasm? Yep, I think so.
The first electric vibrators appeared in the late 19th century, still camouflaged as therapy for hysteria and sold only to doctors. But as the years passed, women must have decided to take over their own “treatment” of their pitiful hysteria condition. Magazine advertisements began offering vibrators to women. Of course, for self-treatment of hysteria only. In 1918, Sears Roebuck even carried a vibrator.
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