The original patent was filed in 1869. It was prescribed for the nerves and female hysteria. Hysteria, from the Greek for "suffering uterus," involved anxiety, irritability, sexual fantasies, "pelvic heaviness" and "excessive" vaginal lubrication - in other words, sexual arousal.
As late as 1930 it was still in use in the salons and parlors of fashionable Paris and London. Madame Rubenstein went to Europe to investigate their beauty business, and most probably had the treatment. It was advertised in Needlecraft, Home Needlework Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and even sold in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue as an "aid every woman appreciates."
In 1952 the American Medical Association declared that hysteria is not really an illness. Since the vibrator could no longer be used as a medical device, it had be acknowledged for what it is.
We find traces as far back as the time of the great kings of Egypt of similar devices being used for rituals and being consecrated as holy relics. In 2500 BC Egyptian art depicts female dancers gyrating nearly naked, carrying a sculpture of an oversized erect penis to honor the god Osiris.
We find traces as far back as the time of the great kings of Egypt of similar devices being used for rituals and being consecrated as holy relics. In 2500 BC Egyptian art depicts female dancers gyrating nearly naked, carrying a sculpture of an oversized erect penis to honor the god Osiris.
Possibly an agricultural fertility ritual...
The Olisbos was sold in the Mediterranean in 500 BC, and in 1400 AD in Renaissance Italy, the Greek olisbo became "dildo," possibly from the Latin dilatare, to open wide, or perhaps from the Italian diletto, to delight.
The first vibrator was developed by an American physician, George Taylor, M.D., it was a large, cumbersome, steam-powered apparatus.
Luckily we have come a long way since then, and we are much more enlightened, evolved and informed. If there is a demand, the laws of economics decrees that there will be a supply...Ancient stone phallus found in Germany
July 25 2005 at 02:44PM
Tubingen, Germany - A stone phallus 28 000 years old has been discovered in a cave in Baden-Wuertemberg in southern Germany, according to archeologists with the University of Tubingen.
In assembling 14 stone fragments found last year in the Hohle Fels cave, archeologists rebuilt the phallus, which is 20cm long and 3cm wide.
It will be on display at the prehistoric museum in Blaubeuren.
It will be on display at the prehistoric museum in Blaubeuren.
The caves in the Blaubeuren region, which sheltered Neanderthal man, are among the most important archeological sites in Europe.
The oldest object representing a bird, dating back 32 000 years, was discovered a few years ago in the same cave. - Sapa-dpa
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