Hysteria. Where does the first vibrator come from?

2019-12-30 20:56:27

Until the middle of the 19th century, there was a disease called female hysteria. This disorder was also called “hysterical paroxysm” and any simple symptom that a women could suffer like a simple headache, apathy, insomnia, irritation, disobedience, dissatisfaction...was more than enough for a woman to consider her hysterical.

Do you know what the treatment was?

Basically, manually masturbating the patient until she reached orgasm, and in this way the hysteria healed. Imagine the joy and the situation for those women at that time and context.

The thing is that the endless queues to reach orgasm were increasing, so the first vibrator in history was created, to replace the arduous manual labor.

At first, its use was for therapeutic purposes, but later it was officially declared that female hysteria wasn’t a disease but only a false myth.

Bit by bit, the vibrator came to private homes and also to the porn industry. It was there that the vibrators began to look like objects of sexual perversion or sin, and society repudiated them for a long time.

Luckily, we have now advanced a lot and brought down many myths thanks to science and the professionals who makes them.

From Secretummm, we would like to ask you… Where do you keep your vibrators? Because on our website we have some ideas.

Judith Viudes

Psicóloga y Sexóloga.

Instagram @judithviuser

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