Who’s excited about this movie? We are! Hysteria is about the fun filled history of ye old vibrators. We can’t wait to see it!

The first vibrator was invented by Kelsey Stinner in the late 1800′s. It was intended to treat “female hysteria”. You know, when you get all cranky, your womb starts floating around and vaginal wetness occurs? Yeah, that. Early on, doctors would make weekly house calls and essentially bring these crazy women to orgasm using their electric vibrators. Oh, I meant they brought these crazy women to “paroxysm” followed by “twitchings accompanied at the same time by pain and pleasure”. What? Orgasms cured “hysteria”? Well, I know a good O yanks me right out of bitch mode.

Did the words, floating womb, throw you? It was believed that the uterus floated in the belly and getting off would put it right back in place.

Roughly 30 years later, Hamilton Beach made the first electric vibrator available for retail sale and home use. Don’t get too excited. It still wasn’t acceptable for women to engage in solo masturbation. It remained a job fit for husbands and doctors only. Could you imagine having to call the doctor every time you needed a good vibrator induced orgasm? Ugh.

“Let the little home doctor bring you health, greater vitality and a clearer complexion.” Not only did the vibrator cure hysteria (aka sexual frustration), it made everything better. Doesn’t sound too far from the truth to me.

I’ll take 3.

There ya have it. A brief history of vibrators.

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