The first vibrator invented in the 19th century
It was the 19th century doctors who, in order to cure women of hysteria (a vague notion at the time encompassing real illness, but also irritability and sexual dissatisfaction), advised a kind of therapy by the Orgasm. Accepted and medicalized practice, since it was of course recognized that women could not experience “clitoral” pleasure and that there could only be one type of orgasm, the “vaginal” one occurring during penetration by a male. man.
It was in 1883 that Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville, a young and attractive doctor in the service of Dr. Dalrymple, a specialist in female hysteria, invented the first electromechanical vibrator, a revolutionary object for the time and which improved the performance of his practice ( 6 patients per hour instead of one).
He relieved the troubles of his patients with the help of caresses as therapeutic as they are suggestive … but soon a nasty cramp comes to thwart his practice … With the complicity of his best friend, a fan of new technologies, they develop an object revolutionary: the first vibrator.
But, the dildo has always existed!
The dildo has always existed. During Antiquity, on Greek or Roman pottery and on Egyptian frescoes, we can see the ancestors of current dildos. The Greeks, with a wise refinement, made it a true art of living and in black Africa, priapic statuettes and totemic phalluses were carved as symbols of fertility.
During the Renaissance, the object was baptized “gaude mihi” (“rejoice me” in medieval Latin), which will give “dildos”.
When the vibrator becomes art:
A whole collection of wire and sub-sector vibrators will be exhibited in Paris during the Universal Exhibition of 1900 and with the appearance of dildo merchants in the West, it becomes possible to have made-to-measure models made by specialized craftsmen.
With the advent of the film industry at the beginning of the last century, these devices will leave the doctor’s office for use in pornographic films. Relegated to the fields of brothels and sex shops, it was at this point that they acquired this sulphurous and disturbing reputation. After the war, the sex toy as an object of emancipation and discovery gained ground.
We find the dildo in several artistic fields throughout the twentieth century.
In the cinema first of all with the archer of “A Thousand and One Nights” by Pasolini, in a painting by Salvador Dali with “The anthropomorphic bread” and finally in sculpture with “The disagreeable object” by Alberto Giacometti and “L ‘objet-dard’ by Marcel Duchamp.
It is now used by 22% of French couples.
Sextoy: there is also organic
In the organic family, I would like the sex toy! For those who are worried about the health risks of using a classic sex toy, some sex gadgets are also durable.
