• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    People from the 70s would laugh out loud at how prude we’ve become.

    SOURCE: Am from the 70s and laughing.

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      I’ve come across enough novelty stuff from that time to become sad at where we ended up.

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      Hells yeah. Hot pants! Also men’s shorts knew their place in the natural order and weren’t trying to be pants.

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      Always has been. No joke, vibrators were advertised as massage devices since the 50s. Mail order war the way to go long before the first sex shops opened.

      And they really are massage devices. I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back, and sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses when they are blocked during a cold (roll a soft cloth around the vibrator and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds, free airways for the win).

      Very useful devices I’d say.

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        “shake free” the sinuses

        That’s genius and you need to use every excuse to spread it around.

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        ‘I jackhammer my nostrils with a vibrator’ is not a sentiment I’d expect to find wholesome.

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        I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back

        😏

        sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses…and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds

        😏

        Double entendre FTW! 😁

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    Can confirm here in New Zealand too. Well into the 80’s in the relative mainstream, and even seen up to at least the mid-90’s in mail-order catalogues (of general household goods).

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      Richard Hammond and James May with a bottle of For Legal Reasons This Is Not Vodka.

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      Sued? Or criminally prosecuted? IIRC many states in USA had laws against dildoes and vibrators till recently, or still do