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The first electrically powered Vibrator was invented by Kelsey Stinner in the 1880s to treat what was then called “congestion of the genitalia“ and “female hysteria”. For centuries, doctors had been treating women for these illnesses by performing what we would now recognize as masturbation. However, they soon noticed that the “vulvar stimulation” required had nothing to do with sex, but reportedly found it to be time consuming and hard-work.

Dr’s found that Stinner’s vibrators got the job done more quickly and without much effort, and soon became an extremely popular medical device.

In the 1880s the vibrators were large, cumbersome and quite frankly really expensive. However, by the 19^th century, vibration therapy was one of the most popular services available at luxury resorts in Europe and America. Some of the vibrators featured were musical, counterweighted, vibratory forks, undulating wire coils called vibratiles, vibrators that hung from the ceiling attached to tables and floors models on rollers.

Then in 1902 American Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale. At the time making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle and toaster.

The home versions of vibrators soon became extremely popular, with advertisements in Needlecraft, Woman’s Home Companion, Modern Priscilla and the Sears & Roebucks Catalogs. These advertisements soon disappeared due to their appearance in pornography which made it no longer tenable for polite society to avoid the sexual connotations of the device.

Under the guise as “body massagers”, millions of vibrators have been sold to both men and women. Some of the purchasers never use the item for more than relief from muscular tension or aches and pains.

Vibrators nowadays often allow people to achieve orgasm faster and easier than by manual stimulation. They are also often recommended by sex therapists for women who have difficulty achieving orgasm by other means. Couples also use vibrators from time to time to enhance the pleasure of one or both partners.

While some vibrators run on batteries, the others have a power cord that plug into the wall or a rechargeable base.

Harper’s magazine notes a Durex Condom survey that states more than 46% of women owned vibrators at the end of 2005.

To note the sale of vibrators and similar devices are still outlawed in several states including Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Louisiana and Massachusetts and in Texas, the sale of devices for sexual stimulation such as vibrators and dildos is technically illegal unless the buyer signs a statement releasing the product only for educational purposes. |

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