A Quick and Dirty History of the Vibrator

The first electric vibrator. It originated in Victorian times because doctors were getting hand cramps from treating hysteria. Confused? Let’s back up a little. .
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Women who were presenting with mild anxiety and/or what we know today as PMS were diagnosed with ‘female hysteria’. And the treatment? Orgasms... or what in that time was known as hysterical paroxysm. To accomplish this, doctors would give pelvic massages. .
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Inevitably, this treatment was very popular and the poor doctors would develop hand cramps! Enter Dr. Granville’s invention of the first electric vibrator in the late 1800s. Thank you Dr. Granville!