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11-23-2014, 04:26 PM
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| My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2718 Male Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 151 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 68 Post(s)
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Re: History of the Vibrator. Who Knew?
Last part about vibrators being hard to find before the 70's is extremely inaccurate. My grandfather worked for a company called Universal which later was taken over by GE or Westinghouse, not sure which, that made household appliances such as toasters, waffle irons, vibrators. Yes vibrators. My grandparents had purchased many products from the company store and a vibrator was among them. This one had springs that strapped around the back of your hand. That was a common type when I was a kid in the 50's and early 60's. No barbershop didn't offer scalp treatments without one. There probably wasn't a hotel in existance that didn't offer you a ride on "magic fingers" by the insertion of a coin in a slot of a timer for a nickle then more over the years. The moving coil Wahl types were found in any drug or department store with all kinds of attachements from a flat disc to something like a comb and of course the big teardrop nub. Gee, wonder what use that was for? One of the most common and cheapest vibrators one could buy in the states during the 50's and 60's looked like (actually was) the base of a chromed steel flashlight but had a plastic top with a motor that had an offset weight inside. Ash Flash, a major flashlight maker sold those by the millions using 2 C cell batteries supposably as a face massager and found in every beauty section. The 50's and 60's also brought in women's electric shavers like Norelco. Many had the shaver part removable and powered everything from a rotary nail trimmer to turning into a facial massager...yeah that little nub again. Unless someone was massaging nostils or ear canals, it must have had another purpose. Those white plastic vibrators that ads show women holding to their neck or shoulder didn't start finding their way into the backs of women's magazines and mail order gift catalogs until the mid 60's from what I remember. While it did look like a dildo, it was never marketed as such. In short, vibrators have been with us a long time albeit as products for other uses. Find any old Sears catalog and you'll find plenty. While you're looking, even up to the 60's, they were still selling electrified belts for men among the hernia trusses. Even electronic stimulation of the genitals was around up to 100 years ago. Vibrators have been around and easily available this entire past century. |
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06-10-2017, 08:00 AM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:13165 Male Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 8 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: History of the Vibrator. Who Knew?
Cleopatra supposedly filled a small hollow ball with bees and used it as a vibrator. Clitoral pleasure has been a thing of ancient times. |