Dildos--er, vibrators--er, personal massagers. Buy now!

[Hypno-Toad]

@vivalostwages

Interesting. Maybe I just wasn’t looking at the right pages before.

Those pages were stuck together.

[DocCathode]

I’d just like to point out that I am a licensed handenbunger.

[Colophon]

Rachel Maines, researching needlework patterns in early 20th century women’s magazines, ran across ads for electric vibrators.

That old excuse! :rolleyes:

[Green_Bean]

@Shirley_Ujest

I have read the Vermont Country Store catalog since I was a wee lass as my Mom gets it. So, sitting at her house, reading her junk mail magazines and seeing the VCS is like an old friend . Finding out they starting selling Vibrators nearly made me fall off my chair laughing so hard. THAT generation and VIBRATORS just doesn’t mesh in my mind.

That’s right, missy. Last night I put on my favorite Lanz of Salzburgnightgown, slipped off my long-torso briefs with non-elasticized leg-holes, and had some fun with my new personal massager. I’m tellin’ ya…Herman could have taken a few lessons from that thing! Woo!

[BigT]

@Muffin

Finally some truth in advdrtising. A friend gave me one of these, which is advertised as being discrete. Neither of us knew that it was a vibrator, and only just now did I learn what it really is for.

I’m not sure I’d call it discrete. I’d be looking pretty funny at grown woman who loved her rubber ducky and took it with her everywhere she traveled. Why not make it look like something someone might legitimately carry?

Heck, here’s an idea: make it look like a loufa or those scungy things for liquid soap. Or, heck, a mini shampoo bottle.

And, of course, you’d have another practical shape you could carry outside the bath.

[sevenwood]

@BigT

And, of course, you’d have another practical shape you could carry outside the bath.

Hmm, so** that’s** what all of those “cellphones” I see women carrying around in the supermarket really are…

[jayjay]

I completely missed this thread when it began last week, but it’s too funny to see it now. We do magazine/catalog exchanges here at work, and I picked up the Vermont Country Store catalog yesterday morning off the table. I’m looking through it and it just looks like a typical “old-timey-trend” catalog…Mennonite chic fashions, as-seen-on-tv gadgets, old-timey candies, vibrators, specialty soa…VIBRATORS?! I’m really glad I didn’t find that page before I was outside during my (solitary) lunch hour because I just about passed out from oxygen deprivation I was laughing so hard. I had to bring the catalog home to show my partner…just could not believe it. I’ve NEVER seen them marketed in such numbers or so openly in those mail-order catalogs (well, not THESE mail-order catalogs, anyway). They even had a model with the bunny-ears!

[Boyo_Jim]

@BigT

I’m not sure I’d call it discrete. I’d be looking pretty funny at grown woman who loved her rubber ducky and took it with her everywhere she traveled. Why not make it look like something someone might legitimately carry?

Heck, here’s an idea: make it look like … a mini shampoo bottle…

Good luck explaining that one when it runs through the airport xray.

[LouisB]

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

Interestingly, the 5th Circuit court of appeals has ruled that Texas’ laws against selling and owning vibrators are unconstitutional, while the 11th Circuit court of appeals has ruled that Alabama’s very similar laws against selling and owning vibrators are constitutional.

I wonder if this question will end up in the Supreme Court?

Texas obscenity statute - Wikipedia

Here in the rehab center, access to your linked pages is blocked. As I recall from my Texas days, one had to advertise sex aids as “instructional” devices----advertising and sales were regulated all to hell and back. I will bet that Texas will fight the ruling for all they are worth.

[vivalostwages]

@Shirley_Ujest

No flannel or plaid, but there is a Ducky

It sure gives the Rubby Ducky song a whole new dimension.

[Shirley_Ujest]

@Green_Bean

That’s right, missy. Last night I put on my favorite Lanz of Salzburgnightgown, slipped off my long-torso briefs with non-elasticized leg-holes, and had some fun with my new personal massager. I’m tellin’ ya…Herman could have taken a few lessons from that thing! Woo!

Yanno, one of my favoritest nighties EVAR was a Lanz. ( the sleeves have elastic, dontcha know.) Mr. Ujest has forbidden them in the house. Something about erection issues or something.

[vivalostwages]

This one looks like something you’d use to mix pancake batter:

http://www.fulloflife.com/website/store/product_detail.asp?UID=2010043019085617&item_no=73068&keyword=massager&cat_keyword=&search_page_no=1&WT.svl=73068

[jayjay]

@vivalostwages

This one looks like something you’d use to mix pancake batter:

http://www.fulloflife.com/website/store/product_detail.asp?UID=2010043019085617&item_no=73068&keyword=massager&cat_keyword=&search_page_no=1&WT.svl=73068

“Due to health and safety concerns, this item is non-returnable.”

snerk

[Silver_Tyger]

@outlierrn

sears catalog 1918
File:Sears vibrators.jpg - Wikipedia

My DAD has that one (or at least it looks like it). As a back massager. And no other purpose. It blew my mind when I found out that it… er… had a double purpose (mostly because I’ve felt how it vibrates and I wouldn’t want it near my girly bits).

[vivalostwages]

This one kinda freaks me out:

http://www.amerimark.com/cgi-bin/amerimark/postkey_find.html?cm_re=celebros-_-center-_-search%20promo&keywords=027397

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

This one reminds the Mrs. and I of Gonzo the Great, from the muppets!

[EvilTOJ]

@outlierrn

Submitted for your approval
from the wiki article on ‘female hysteria’

While physicians of the period acknowledged that the disorder stemmed from sexual dissatisfaction, they seemed unaware of or unwilling to admit the sexual purposes of the devices used to treat it.[1] In fact, the introduction of the speculum was far more controversial than that of the vibrator.[1]

Weird

Well yea of course they wouldn’t admit it was from sexual dissatisfaction. A lot of these machines were used in a doctor’s office, by the doctor on the patient. If it got out that women were going there to be masturbated by a man other than her husband think of the scandal! The insult!

[vivalostwages]

Wow—there are even sex devices and toys marketed specifically to Christian couples:

Intimacy products for Christian couples

There’s even Biblical support given in the FAQs.
Fascinating…

[AClockworkMelon]

@Silver Tyger Girl

My DAD has that one (or at least it looks like it). As a back massager. And no other purpose.

Don’t be so sure.

[Silver_Tyger]

@AClockworkMelon

Don’t be so sure.

Knowing my dad as I do, yeah, no other purpose. sigh My dad is special. And by special I mean super-boring.