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By the begining of thew 19th century, physician-assisted paroxysm was firmly entrenched in Europe and the U.S. It was a godsend for many doctors. At that time, the public viewed physicians with tremendous distrust. Most doctors had little or no scientific training, and they had few treatments that worked. But thanks to genital massage, hysteria was a condition doctors could manage to treat with great success. This produced large numbers of grateful women, who returned faithfully and regularly, eager to pay for additional appointments.
This is where vibrators and dildos came in! Tired fingers from all that massage. Nineteenth-century medical journals lamented that many hysterics taxed their doctors' stamina. Physicians complained of having trouble maintaining therapeutic massage long enough to produce the desired results.
Vibrators and dildos came about as physicians began experimenting with mechanical substitutes for their hands. They tried a number of genital massage contraptions, among them water-driven devices, and steam-driven pumping vibrators and dildos. But these machines were cumbersome, messy, often unreliable, and sometimes dangerous.
In the late 19th century, electricity became available for home use and the first electric appliances were invented: the sewing machine, the electric fan, and the toaster. These were followed soon after, around 1880, by the electromechanical vibrators patented by an enterprising British physician, Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville. Electric Vibrators were invented more than a decade before the vacuum cleaner and the electric iron.
Electric vibrators and dildos were an immediate hit. They produced paroxysm quickly, safely, reliably, and inexpensively—and as often as women might desire it. By the dawn of the 20th century, doctors had lost their monopoly on Vibrators and hysteria treatment as women began buying the devices themselves. Advertisements appearing in such magazines as "Needlecraft," and the Amazon.com of that era, the "Sears & Roebuck Catalogue" ("...such a delightful companion....all the pleasures of youth...will throb within you....").
Electricity therefore gave women vibrators, but ironically, within a few decades, electricity almost took the devices away from them. With the invention of motion pictures, vibrators and dildos started turning up in porn and gained an unsavory reputation. By the 1920s, they had become socially unacceptable. Vibrator and dildo ads disappeared from the consumer media. From the late 1920s and well into the 1970s, they were difficult to find.
But some inventions are so useful that they survive despite attempts at suppression. Today, an estimated 25 percent of women ownvibrators or
For more on the history of Vibrators, read "The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' The Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction," by Rachel Maines (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
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