I visited my grandfather today, and together we explored his Shop. Tool shed, storage, TV (for Westerns), all of that. In its little attic, Grandpa would take out boxes, and show me different oddities he’s aquired over the years, much of it museum-worthy. Really old medical quackery devices, pieces of farm equipment, interesting stuff. “And this here’s one of the first back massagers,” pointing out a certain contraption casually. “Plug it in, and this here’ll go Whirrarrrarra,” shaking his hand violently to indicate the intensity of the thing. It didn’t seem too relaxing to me. He went on, but my mind stayed on that tool. It occurred to me immediately that it was very possibly an ancient… pleasure device. But this had obviously not dawned on my grandfather. He had mentioned the appliance casually in passing, and I had no reason to thing he believed anything else than what he’d told me.
The device was a handle/motor, with the vibrating part sticking off…it was a little rounded disc, about two inches in diameter. It resembeled in no way a phallus. If it was an old vibrator, it obviously wasn’t intended for insertion, but to be used on the surface. I didn’t ask him how old it was.
I know that around the turn of the century, many women made regular trips to the doctor’s to be… relieved. The doctor had a dildo apparatus to pleasure the woman. I heard this from a reliable source: the History Channel.
So, anybody know what, exactly, the mechanism was? I’m sorry I can’t give a better description, and I won’t be taking a picture. Thanks for your help.
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