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Electric Vibrators..

When electricity became widely available in the late 19th century, the first electric vibrators appeared, still camouflaged as therapy for hysteria and sold only to doctors. But as the years passed, magazine advertisements began offering vibrators to, women for self-treatment of hysteria at home. The 1918 Sears Roebuck catalog touted one vibrator as a "very satisfactory...aid every woman appreciates." And an advertisement ill a 1921 issue of Hearst’s magazine urged men to buy the devices for their wives as Christmas gifts to keep them "young and pretty" and free from the scourge of hysteria.

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