# My coworker is using her vibrator. (On her shoulders!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916 "2004-06-17T20:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/1 "2004-06-17T20:52:59Z")
I know it’s technically called a massager. 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. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/2 "2004-06-17T21:11:31Z")
Here’s to you hearing a soft moan before too long. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/3 "2004-06-17T21:24:37Z")
> [@](#): > > it’s billed as one of the heaviest-duty vibrators you can get. Does it have a pull cord and gas motor on it or something? I’ve never heard of a “heavy duty” vibrator before. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/4 "2004-06-17T21:44:11Z")
Never? I take it you aren’t familiar with the Sybian, then… ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/5 "2004-06-17T21:50:46Z")
I’m not really Ajax Vibrator Company’s target audience. I’ve heard of a Sybian, just never bothered to Google it. Do they still have that Liberation Army? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/6 "2004-06-17T22:03:15Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Does it have a pull cord and gas motor on it or something? I’ve never heard of a “heavy duty” vibrator before. “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…” - Lea Delaria ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/7 "2004-06-17T22:18:01Z")
You mean one of [these](http://www.grandtec.com/USBVibe.htm)? 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. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/8 "2004-06-17T23:11:53Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/9 "2004-06-18T00:51:21Z")
I thought they sold vibrators at Brookstone nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/10 "2004-06-18T03:11:30Z")
[Best. Vibrators. Ever.](http://tinyurl.com/2p9vy) (I don’t have one, but they just look so cool!) ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/11 "2004-06-18T13:45:20Z")
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. I wonder why? :dubious: :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/12 "2004-06-19T14:04:05Z")
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?) Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/13 "2004-06-19T14:26:12Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > 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. 😉 [via Amazon](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NEBW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/14 "2004-06-19T14:48:35Z")
oh my. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/15 "2004-06-20T00:22:33Z")
Your coworker is using the vibrator on her shoulders to do what? (“Buzzing Epaullettes” would make a good band name.) ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/16 "2004-06-20T01:26:10Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Your coworker is using the vibrator on her shoulders to do what? Vibrate, of course. She’s vibrating her shoulders. What’s to understand? ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/17 "2004-06-20T02:50:52Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > 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). Yep, [here](http://www.thestranger.com/2003-02-06/savage.html) and [here](http://www.thestranger.com/2003-02-27/savage.html) are the links. ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/18 "2004-06-20T13:37:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/19 "2004-06-20T13:56:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coworker-is-using-her-vibrator-on-her-shoulders/250916/20 "2004-06-20T14:31:20Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > Do all the somewhat older Canadian Dopers remember Consumers stores? 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!