The Sexiest History of the Vibrators

Vibrators are among the most popular sex toys. If you don't own a vibrator, then you're a weird one. But most women forget when buying a vibrator the beloved history of their favorite toy.

Claims like every feminist should own a sex toy or a vibrator; else, female empowerment makes me laugh every time I hear it. I can't stop loving. I will do a bit more research before joining a woke movement. I have never joined one. So why should I care?

The history of the vibrator is serious, though. Seriously entertaining if you ask me, though it can be seriously jarring for others. Nowadays, vibrators are fun. Teenagers flaunt their toy collections on social media, while grown women attend parties to waste more money.

Let's talk numbers:

Regardless, they are not alone. Most of my friends have at least one. They spend more on toys than make-up or clothes. Most of them prefer the toy to the attention of a male lover. Female incel, I should say.

According to statista.com, the global sex toys market will more than double in size between 2019 and 2026.

Anne Summers leaves proof that marketing to women can increase a company's annual revenue from £83.000 to £140 Mio.

While some consider this empowering to women, I say kudos for good marketing. Among marketers, it's an unwritten rule that if you stop talking to men and start addressing women, you can make double the sales. They will buy almost anything regardless of its price or quality.

A lack of intimacy travels with an abundance of toys. In my opinion, a toy should never replace a companion. It's just the easy way out. You buy, charge, use, and don't have to deal with mental boundaries. You have to press the correct button. How could this be female empowerment? Well, it's a good sales gimmick. Right? Perhaps a man came up with it.

But let's move on to the intelligent men who gave birth to the vibrator.

The history of the vibrator:

In the beginning, there were only a few brave people. They first faced the problem and created a toy.

That was a bit dramatic. I know. But did you know that vibrators were invented to treat female hysteria and are only approved for medical use?

They were not built for female pleasure but because of male laziness.

Hysteria and the fall of the vibrators:

At first, vibrators were only available in medical spas.

With the rise of smaller batteries, portable vibrators became a thing, but they are still considered medical devices:

In the 1920s, stag films, which were early 20th-century pornographic films, featured medical vibrators in sexual contexts and, according to Mains, made vibrators socially unacceptable. After their use in stag films, doctors began treating vibrators as sex toys and perceived their use in women as sexual rather than therapeutic.

Before hysteria was dropped "from the list of recognized conditions," Sigmund Freud ended the encounters with "pleasant" encounters in health spas.

Health spas have grown with the rise of automation. Earlier in the day, when a woman was suffering from hysteria, she was advised to orgasm. Soon, they had more women than they could treat, and their hands got lazy, so they invented the vibrator. A tool to cure hysteria in women, forced upon them by men.

Hysteria painted a dark past:

Doctors worldwide use hysteria as a medical diagnosis for women exhibiting various symptoms and behaviors.

Researchers have found the first mention of women-specific diseases in ancient Egyptian medical texts dating back to 2000 BC. The Greek philosopher Hippocrates was one of the first to mention hysteria in a gynecological medical account. Around the same time, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote that women caused "hysteria" for not having children, saying that a childless womb agitated and moved throughout the body, causing health problems. And prescribed medical treatments, including marriage, heterosexual sex, pregnancy, application of aromatic oils to the female genitalia, and external vaginal stimulation, will return the uterus to its proper position in the pelvis.

Women were treated for this "condition." While some sources offer you a broad spectrum, others go into detail. Women were often blamed for their arousal and subjected to abuse. Initially, they thought tampons threatened women's health; the long list also included masturbation and an increased number of educated women. In short, education was blamed by them for hysteria.

Women suffer mistreatment and perceptions of ill health. Their anatomy was considered broken, and their sexuality was disgraceful.

Did history repeat itself?

I asked myself as I researched this piece. Women who can't get out of sex still challenge their bodies. Vibrators may have eased their physical struggles but ended the blame game. I believe they have created many new problems. Such as the one Bangkoksextoy has described in "My love for vibrators stopped me from having sex."

Yes, she was "sexually confident," but she has also struggled with orgasms.

I believe that Bangkoksextoy's story is very common to many women regardless of their age.

Once you start using a vibrator, you won't want to stop. Any other stimulation feels stupid, and sex is less intimate when you can't physically touch or know how to engage your body.