I know it looks nothing like a penis, since it’s all smooth and white and wide and double-headed. (Not my penis, anyway.)
But the only place I’ve ever actually seen one of these sold is Seattle’s own Toys in Babeland (which is probably not a worksafe link, so do your own Google search, ya pervs), where it’s billed as one of the heaviest-duty vibrators you can get.
So while she sits there typing away with this big white vibrating appliance massaging her back, I’m trying not to laugh because she’s using a big ol’ vibrator at work.
“She was gone, and so was my TV, my VCR, and my brand new Hitachi Magic Wand! Gone! … I loved that vibrator! It had variable speeds and a ten foot cord! I could take that sucker to church if I wanted to! Gone! I loved that vibrator! It had a snooze button! For those really cold mornings when you just need fiiive more minutes… fiiiiiive more minutes… fi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ive more minutes…”
You mean one of these? A vibrator with a USB jack. Nifty.
Actually, I know the ones you’re talking about, and I can’t speak for Seattle, but round here most any drugstore or department store carries them. No need to go to the sex shop.
A have a female friend – she’s about 50 years old – who I’ve worked with at several different call centers. When we started the last job we worked at together, we were sitting in one of the managers’ offices chatting with the manager while waiting for her to look up our seat assignments and Deborah (my friend) just blurts out, “Oh, MidnightRadio, did I tell you…? I found the best vibrator at Wal-Mart the other day! I just love it!” I thought the manager was going to give herself whiplash, she turned her head so fast. Of course, it wasn’t that kind of vibrator she’d gotten – she’d never admit to something like that.
Does anyone else remember when Dan Savage promised that woman a Hitachi Magic Wand, but then wouldn’t give it to her (I forget why).
Not on the same level as the “massagers” but did you ever have those stupid toys in America, key-ring type things, that you pulled a little string and they vibrated. When I was in Year 10 or 11 that was one of the fads for all of the girls to have.
Then there’s the Harry Potter vibrating broom that was pulled off the market. :eek: Anybody have a picture link of that thing? I hear they’re quite the collectable now, especially amongst the older Potter fans.
I still remember giggling at the “personal massagers” that they sold in Sears and Consumers catalogs when I was in junior high. These were the traditional phallic ones. I believe, soon after other companies and stores started putting out similar items without denying their sexual uses, that complaints to Sears and Consumers led to their “personal massagers” being removed from their catalogs (at least the phallic ones).
I also remember rumours in high-school that Sears continued to supply phallic massagers, but in order for someone to get one, they had to go through indirect channels. (Consumers had gone out of business, most likely because they stopped selling “personal massagers”. Do all the somewhat older Canadian Dopers remember Consumers stores?)
My friend Jon and his wife take their baby girl to a physical therapist once a week - she was born with a bum arm. The physical therapist told them to get a vibrator – the penis-shaped kind – and use it to massage their daughter’s arm. Apparently the phallic ones are just the right size and shape for infants.
Jon and his wife were speechless. “Vibrating dildo” and “our baby daughter” were two concepts they’d never put together in their minds before.
Referring to Sears and Consumers, etc., selling these things …
I always enjoyed seeng them in Lillian Vernon, Harriet Carter, and the other shlock-a-logs that came in the mail weekly. The lady in the picture would be holding it against her cheek with a beatific smile on her face. I was only 8 or 10 when I figured out there was something just not right about that picture. It was much later that I learned the awful truth.
One of my first jobs was at a Consumer’s Distributing store in Hamilton, ON. I haven’t thought about them in ages! And yes, they did carry vibrators. They kept them in The Vault with the watches and jewellery and phono cartridges and stuff, where you had to sign in and out of the room. Maybe vibrators are more valuable than I’d imagined!
