Okay…embarrassing question…how does a male use one?
Are we talking anal insertion? Or just buzzing the perineum? The shaft, the glans, the meatus…? The chock, the yoke, the ring, the sling? I mean… How?
And do the things still make a terrible buzzing racket, so everyone in the whole house knows what’s going on? Or have they gotten better at silencing 'em?
(Sigh. I’ll just stay with the familiar old sweat-sock, I guess…)
Geez, do I have to draw you a picture?
Yeah, ya did. And you did quite well, if I may add.
You’d have to define your terms. I’ve tried it, but it didn’t work for its intended purpose. Does that still count? It seems that different types of stimulation work best for different types of genitals. As a teenager I tried a lot of things, and only manual stimulation achieved completion.
My fiance is of the opinion that nearly every woman uses one, and I thought he was exaggerating. So I posted a poll to the Dope, and while I suspect this will return slightly more yeses than average since this is a liberal place, I thought it could give me more reliable feedback than I could gather on my own. (I did Google it, and the results said just slightly more than half of women use them, but my fiance swore that it was simply a case of underreporting due to embarrassment.)
I just threw in the men options so the men wouldn’t feel left out.
I figured attaching it to a leafblower to make a dildo machine gun was what the op was talking about. How else do you use them?
Only if I can refer to my partner as a “vibrator.”
Yep. Just like God intended it. I’m sure its in the bible somewhere.
Pics or it dint happen. 
(had to be said)
My Aunt and Uncle (the preacher) often had a big ol’ Hitachi Magic Wand sitting right on their coffee table, completely unaware that it could be used for anything other than massaging ones back. It was uncomfortably hilarious watching 12 people sit in a room actively not noticing the enormous vibrater.
My wife is as “liberal” as they come, and wouldn’t be adverse to using one if she wanted to. We bought one once to give it a try. So, if she was responding to the poll, she would have said yes to “ever” using one. However, she didn’t see the need and we eventually tossed it out after months of no use. Thinking back over a lifetime of relationships, no women I have ever lived with owned one. I think your finance is quite mistaken, and I’m glad we could fight his ignorance.
I’d say that 50% of women (or slightly more) own one. In my group of women friends that would probably be pretty accurate. I think that some couples consider them, “their toys,” not just her toys. Some men, like my ex-husband, think they’re being “replaced.” I didn’t have any for almost two decades. I don’t consider sex toys a replacement of anything, or anyone. I find them best, when enjoyed together with a partner who is open to experimentation. 
My wife has several and uses them about half the time she masturbates. In fact, just this morning she texted me a picture of today’s solo session with her most recently purchased little friend.
She tried using one on me once and it really did nothing for me. Sometimes she just uses her fingers, but there are times that they just don’t provide the ‘oomph’ she needs.
I don’t believe you. Can you provide a cite?
Maybe the women who say they don’t own a vibrator have an electric toothbrush…
My wife and I have a Hitachi Magic Wand (serious horsepower; forget the toothbrushes). It gets used plenty - solo as well as together.
NOW I get it!
Looks kinda noisy, though; I guess they still need to work on that.
Yeah, tried it once or twice in both of the places a male can. Not really a fan–not a lot of lot of pleasurable stimulation, more just a sorta numbing. Haven’t messed w/ 'em in years.
Female here. The answer is no. God created the spin cycle so I wouldn’t have to. Mmmm… just thinking of lopsided loads… Yesss!