The History of Mechanical Pleasure

From massage therapy to cure hysteria recommended by Hippocrates to modern teledildonics; Slate has the history of the vibrator, responsible for mechanically inducing billions of orgasms. Quote: “By 1917 there were more vibrators than toasters in American homes.” At one point, such sexual enhancers were even marketed to housewives as attachments to vacuum-cleaners.

(Suzi dear, I will file this under ‘miscellaneous,’ not as a letter addressed to you).