N / A? How many times have you secretly thanked the inventor of the vibrator for his great invention? Let’s put it this way: He really did not deserve YOUR gratitude
The vibrator – a very wonderful thing! The piece was invented at the end of the 19th century by a physician named Joseph Mortimer Granville. But not for the sake of us women – but his male colleagues!
Remedy for female “hysteria”
Already proven in antiquity, the female desire for sexual gratification was considered for centuries above all as one thing: a disease. Hippocrates, in whose name doctors still swear their oath, understood the so-called “hysteria” of his patients as a gynecological disorder that develops in the uterus and causes their humors to accumulate. The symptoms of this “disease” ranged from headache to abdominal pain, insomnia and depression. What physicians could not explain otherwise they diagnosed as hysteria. The most common therapy for this “disease”: create a hand, about once or twice a week!
No joke: The only way to solve the jam of the humors, it was believed, with the help of a genital massage to trigger a “hysterical crisis” (ie an orgasm), which makes everything right again. So far, so disturbing (or crazy or whatever you think about it …)!
Hysterical epidemic
However, this treatment method became problematic in the 19th century. Well, in truth, it has always been, of course, but in the 19th century, physicians came to the conclusion that things could not go on like that – because hysteria became a trend diagnosis. Tradition has it that in the second half of the century, three quarters of women in the US suffered from this disease. The treating physicians were overwhelmed.
Until the British physician Mortimer Granville in 1883 presented his “Granville Hammer”, the first electrically operated vibrator! Although the inventor himself asserted that he did not use the device on women and did not develop it at all. But his colleagues did not stop at using the wonder weapon to fight hysteria and spare their overburdened forearm muscles. Soon, the “Granville Hammer” belonged to the standard repertoire of any well-stocked doctor’s office.
The fact that women could easily “cure” themselves with the vibrator did not come until a few years later, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Well, sort of typical … But before we should rebel now about the fact that our favorite sex toy was invented in truth for men and mood for masturbation in women was considered a disease, Let us rather enjoy that we live in the 21st century, Anyone who would like to have (and use) a “Granville Hammer” in their nightstand drawer can …