Even I am disturbed by this, yet still find myself excited.

[redback]

That was funny, But out of curiosity how would you know.

i have reemed many many a nun.

[Shibby]

So how's that work? :hmm:

I will try and find the info on it. It was documentary on HBO about sex toys and the first vibrators were made for doctors to treat what they thought was hysteria in young to middle aged women. The doctors originally did it by hand but as the treatment got more popular a tool was developed so that the doctor would not get overly tired between patients and could treat all patients equally.

[FitnessBrat]

I will try and find the info on it. It was documentary on HBO about sex toys and the first vibrators were made for doctors to treat what they thought was hysteria in young to middle aged women. The doctors originally did it by hand but as the treatment got more popular a tool was developed so that the doctor would not get overly tired between patients and could treat all patients equally.

OMG :wacko:

[Shibby]

This site talks about a lot of the same stuff as the show I saw. There are some interesting pictures on the site.

MedEx Vibrators

The use of vulvular massage as a therapy for "hysterical" patients dates back to Hippocrates. During the 19th century, it caught on as a treatment for the rampantly diagnosed afflictions hysteria and neurasthenia. The doctor of Alice James, the sickly sister of the famous Henry and William, probably brought her routinely to "hysterical paroxysm."

The treatment wasn't generally thought of as sexual, but rather as ho-hum therapy. Not surprisingly, it was a cash cow for the medical profession. Women had to return week after week, year after year. But doing it by hand was exhausting, tedious work; some women had to be massaged for an hour before they reached paroxysm.

Thus, entrepreneurial doctors experimented with mechanizing the process. Hydrotherapy—the shooting of water directly at the patient's reproductive region—proved effective and became quite fashionable. It had its drawbacks, though: It was messy, expensive, and not easily portable.

In the 1880s, a British doctor stepped in to invent the first electric vibrator, an industrial-size contraption meant to be a permanent fixture in a doctor's office. It was a major labor-saver, allowing many patients to reach paroxysm in less than 10 minutes.

Paradoxically, while female patients were being massaged to paroxysm week after week, men prone to excessive onanism and unwholesome nocturnal secretions were diagnosed with "spermatorrhea." Torturelike contraptions were contrived to strap and zap them back to normal.

Men fortunate enough to be diagnosed with more amorphous ailments were sometimes treated with vibrator massage. The legendary naturalist John Muir patented his own vibrator for men in 1899.

Around the turn of the century, entrepreneurs began to recognize the huge potential market for hand-held vibrators for home use. Vibrator innovation was in fact a driving force behind the creation of the small electric motor. Hamilton Beach of Racine, Wis., patented its first take-home vibrator in 1902, making the vibrator the fifth electrical appliance to be introduced into the home, after the sewing machine and long before the electric iron.

By 1917, there were more vibrators than toasters in American homes. Dozens of patents were issued for new designs between 1900 and 1940. Manufactured long before the era of engineered obsolescence, these machines were built to last. Many vibrators of this vintage still survive; at least a dozen are usually for sale on eBay at any given moment.

Starting in the 1920s, stag reels blew the vibrator's cover, revealing it to be the sex toy that it was. The most famous of these flicks was The Nun's Story (not to be confused with the 1959 Audrey Hepburn film of the same name). It starred the wife of bodybuilder Vic Tanney, who disrobes from her nun's habit and then reclines luxuriantly with her electric vibrator until a virile but clean-cut Peeping Tom shows up.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, the vibrator became what academics like to call a camouflaged technology. Mail-order catalogs full of household tchotchkes featured beautiful women with long, silky hair loosening their tight shoulder muscles with banana-shaped vibrators. Also popular were vibrators that doubled as nail-buffer kits, hair brushes, backscratchers, and some that were designed as attachments for vacuum cleaners. Most of them were cheesy, battery-operated devices that came in shag-carpet hues: avocado, gold, and burnt orange.

In 1973, Betty Dodson started masturbation groups for women to raise their sexual consciousness, and she introduced them to the wonders of the Hitachi Magic Wand, which she contended could wake the most somnambulant clitoris. Her book Sex for One was translated into eight languages. That same year, Eve's Garden, a sex shop for women, opened in New York City. Good Vibrations followed nearly five years later in San Francisco.

Vibrators came back into the mainstream in the 1990s, thanks not to radical feminists but to the Reagan administration. With the public health threat of AIDS looming, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop mailed out a list of safe-sex options to every household in the land in the late 1980s. Vibrators were on it.



In 1999, Rachel Maines published The Technology of Orgasm, a provocative history of the vibrator that she spent 20 years researching. Maines started out studying needlework but was intrigued to discover that the backs of old sewing magazines were filled with vibrator advertisements. In addition to treating hysteria, these early vibrators were multipurpose: They ostensibly relaxed furrowed foreheads, cured sore throats, and restored plumpness to bony arms. Fearing that her new line of academic inquiry might offend alumni, Clarkson University fired Maines. The Technology of Orgasm has become one of the best-selling histories of technology of all time.

At a small and private teledildonics demonstration on June 1, 2005, sex writer Violet Blue, while in San Francisco, induced two orgasms in her partner, who was riding a custom-made mega-vibrator known as a Thrillhammer at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The event included a few technical hitches: At one point the woman (shown here at a different demonstration) knocked an electrical cord out of the socket. It seems that teledildonics—remote-control vibrator sex via computer—has a long way to go.

Meanwhile, a week after Blue's show, a retired oil-industry executive received a patent for a vibrator improvement that he contends will do for ordinary citizens what the orgasmatron did for the characters in Woody Allen's Sleeper: allow them to achieve climax without any physical exertion whatsoever. The invention, which toysinmotion.com recently began selling, is a special motor that serves as a connection between a cordless screwdriver and a conventional vibrator. Unlike other similar machines on the market, its inventor contends, it thrusts and swivels, thereby eliminating any need for labor on the part of the user. And at $139.95, it's a relative bargain.

[Chadd77]

So how's that work? :hmm:

Stop over some time FB and I'll show ya!!! :D

[FitnessBrat]

teledildonics :wacko:

[curtus e flush]

just found this:)

[Bouncer]

nice ^

[alwaysgrowing]

just found this:)

i just finally got the nun out of my head, now i have two dancing around naked

[barbender]

This thread was exactly what I needed today.

[alwaysgrowing]

i love nuns. So innocent

[Bouncer]

i love nuns. So innocent

yea right, you know they have 15 inch dildos up there ass each night. :)

[alwaysgrowing]

yea right, you know they have 15 inch dildos up there ass each night. :)

i need to find a monestary, and walk on it. I think it might be interesting. I can talk dirty, they can talk holy.

[MickG]

You prob watched the Jenna Haze vid, lol