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05/22/10(Sat)22:03:55 No.9074614"The
electrically powered vibrator was invented in the 1880s by Kelsey
Stinner 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, not only did they regard the "vulvular
stimulation" required as having nothing to do with sex, but reportedly
found it time-consuming and hard work."
"Then, in 1902, the
American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator
available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic
appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle,
and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric
iron."
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