Vibrator

Good Vibrations: How the popular sex toy came to be

By Ellen Crosby ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CUP) — Let’s face it: if anything warrants a retelling and celebration of its invention, it’s the vibrator. Rachel P. Maines’s 1999 novel, The Technology of Orgasming, retells the story of its origin. In Victorian England, women who complained of headaches, stoma aches, fatigue, or any other unexplainable symptom were diagnosed with hysteria. Hysteria — in its literal sense — means disease of the womb. Doctors believed that women with emotional excesses had disturbed uteruses. This alleged disease was said to be affecting about half of the female population. Luckily, men were able to solve…

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