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    4 months ago

    Yes on the bullshit, less on the creepy sexual part.

    More a mix of people who viewed it as ensuring families are healthy and populous, and looking out for a husbands wife’s reproductive tract and keeping his wife’s vagina “good”, and making money with a speciality.

    Even in the era when “manual stimulation” as a treatment for hysteria was a thing, there are consistent records of doctors loathing the procedure. Part of what inspired the creation of the vibrator.

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      4 months ago

      Part of what inspired the creation of the vibrator.

      what a wild ride, and look how far we’ve come with technology… there’s now an app for that