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Oct 14, 2016 · Various gadgets were invented to deal with the problem, including a steam-driven vibrating device called the Manipulator, created in 1869, which had a vibrating ball set within a tabletop.
In 1869, American physician George Taylor patented one of the first medical vibrators called The Manipulator. Patients sat on a padded table with a hole cut out to reveal their lower abdomen, through which a vibrating sphere massaged the woman’s genitals.
In 1869 and 1872 an American physician, George Taylor, patented steam-powered massage and vibratory apparatus, some of it designed for female disorders. His principal markets were spas and...
George Taylor, M.D., inventor of the steam-powered vibrator called the Manipulator (1869), explicitly designed and marketed the device for massage of the pelvic and abdominal areas, including the female genitalia (Taylor 1885: 187–190).
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We have American doctor George Taylor to thank for the world’s first recognisable vibrator (and lord, do we thank him). Patented in 1869, The Manipulator was a steam-powered contraption intended as a treatment for ‘hysteria’ – an umbrella term to denote any overt display of emotion or distress that was triggered, it seemed, by a woman’s womb revolt...
Vibrators soon found their place in women’s magazines, where they continued to be marketed as a panacea for everything from headaches and asthma to tuberculosis. Some advertisements even claimed that vibrators had the power to restore fading beauty. If only. Despite being designed to stimulate women’s genitals, these early vibrators ‘were never ope...
This Antique Vibrator Museum is home to hundreds of vibrators from every era, in every size and shape you can imagine, and plenty more you can’t. Take, for instance, the primitive Dr Macaura’s Pulsocon Blood Circulator: a manually operated gizmo that looks more like an egg-beater than a pleasure tool. Things were hardly better by 1930: a vibrator c...
As part of her role at the museum, Queen leads free, monthly tours and provides sex education. So how has female sexuality changed over the decades? ‘I think the most basic answer is that it has come, over the years of the 20th century, to be acknowledged,’ says Queen. ‘It was once widely believed that only “bad” women evinced sexual desire. ‘We sl...
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May 11, 1999 · Prior to that, in 1869 a steam-powered, coal-fired vibrator called The Manipulator was invented by George Taylor. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology from Washington State University, a legal expert witness called by the American Civil Liberties Union to give evidence in a case attempting to ban sex toys.
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Nov 4, 2016 · In 1869 someone helped them in their distress and invented a steam powered mechanical “manipulator” that allowed the doctors to automate this procedure, so they didn’t work their hands into tetany daily.
