# A Criticism Of the Adverstisements in the Time Edition of February 22nd, 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915 "2010-02-14T01:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/101 "2010-02-18T05:54:43Z")
**Curtis** , are you aware that the Sear catalog used to advertise vibrators back in the day? Or that Lysol was once advertised as a douche in magazines such as _Good Housekeeping_? ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/102 "2010-02-18T07:02:27Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **Curtis** , are you aware that the Sear catalog used to advertise vibrators back in the day? Or that Lysol was once advertised as a douche in magazines such as _Good Housekeeping_? Cite?\* \*Unless I’m being whooshed, of course. Then, um, I saw what you did there? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/103 "2010-02-18T14:39:38Z")
> [@SleepyDuck](#): > > Cite?\* > > \*Unless I’m being whooshed, of course. Then, um, I saw what you did there? [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2737/did-victorian-era-doctors-use-vibrators-to-treat-hysteric-female-patients-with-orgasm-therapy) on the vibrator thing: > [@](#): > > Joseph Mortimer Granville invented the modern electromechanical vibrator in the early 1880s. Granville himself opposed its use on women, but that didn’t stop physicians. Vibrators were among the first electric appliances marketed for home use, with the sexual angle carefully downplayed - the units were about as phallic as an electric egg beater. Presumably many customers used them for the muscle massage touted in the ads, but surely not all. Greater public acknowledgment of women’s sexuality made it too clear what female users might be up to, and as of the 1930s mainstream publications had stopped advertising them. Here’s a [less authoritative cite](http://hubpages.com/hub/Stimulating-Personal-Massagers) which specifically mentions Sears: > [@](#): > > So the naughty toy began to evolve and by 1918 Sears and Roebuck actually offered the vibrator as a very satisfying marital aid. By 1930 they were readily available and offered to anyone who wanted one. mmm.. I wonder what my grandparents could have said, about that? Here’s [a Lysol ad](http://www.mum.org/Lysol48.htm) from 1948, touting its efficacy as a douching… juice. ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/104 "2010-02-19T03:53:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Here’s [a Lysol ad](http://www.mum.org/Lysol48.htm) from 1948, touting its efficacy as a douching… juice. Yikes! Thanks for the cite, though. That ad is hilarious in a :dubious: 😕 :eek: kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/105 "2010-02-19T05:23:25Z")
That’s nothing. In that very same February 22, 2010 edition of Time magazine there is a picture of a **NAKED** woman on page 45! And, it’s part of a story, not even an advertisement. So there! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/106 "2010-02-19T05:34:47Z")
> [@SleepyDuck](#): > > Yikes! Thanks for the cite, though. That ad is hilarious in a :dubious: 😕 :eek: kind of way. Imagine how much that would have _burned_? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/107 "2010-02-19T06:57:21Z")
Lysol had douching as one of its uses right on the packaging not that terribly long ago - I was shocked to read it on the package in the variety store in 1979. I think it was something like 1 tsp per quart of water or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/108 "2010-02-19T07:38:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Imagine how much that would have _burned_? I’m trying not to, thankyouverymuch ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/109 "2010-02-19T08:20:08Z")
> [@SleepyDuck](#): > > Cite?\* > > \*Unless I’m being whooshed, of course. Then, um, I saw what you did there? :smack: I shoulda just checked [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysol) in the first place (which is probably what **RNATB** did :)). Some other vintage ads: [[Album] Lysol Douche Advertisements ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/24/37387729_0109ba28d2_b.jpg "Lysol Douche Advertisements") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/834100/) > **[Lysol douche ad, 1928, at MUM](http://www.mum.org/lysol1.htm)** In retrospect, I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised, but… ETA: REMEMBER: “One small intimate physical neglect can rob a wife of her husband’s love!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915.md?page=5)