Once upon a time, women’s bodies were considered so mysterious and inexplicable that their wombs were believed to move around their bodies. The medical name for this condition was “hysteria,” and the cure for it was...a sex toy. Enter the strange and fantastical history of the vibrator.
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Practical Hydrotherapy: A Manual for Students and Practitioners, Curran Pope, M.D., 1909
Timeline: Female Hysteria and the Sex Toys Used to Treat It, Maya Dusenbery, Mother Jones, 2012