| | Do you know what electric device was created BEFORE a vaccum cleaner? | | I created a discussion earlier about female hysteria and the treatment was for a Dr. or a midwife to give a genital massage to get the woman to climax. It was very time consuming and could sometimes take hours. Thus, the development of the vibrator came about for this purpose. So, it took minutes instead of hours.In 1870, a clockwork-driven vibrator was available for physicians. In 1873, the first electromechanical vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria.By the turn of the century, the spread of home electricity brought the vibrator to the consumer market. The appeal of cheaper treatment in the privacy of one’s own home understandably made the vibrator a popular early home appliance. In fact, the Electric Home vibrator was on the market before many other home appliance’essentials’:[b]nine years before the electric vacuum cleaner and 10 years before the electric iron[/b]. A page from a Sears catalog of home electrical appliances from 1918 includes a portable vibrator with attachments, billed as ”Very useful and satisfactory for home service".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_massage | |
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