Did you guys know that back in the day, like Victorian era… there was a “condition” attributed blindly to women whenever they did something crazy or complained or what have you, called “Female Hysteria.”
Some of the symptoms of female hysteria are faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, muscle spasms, shortness of breath, irritability and a loss of appetite for food.
There was a doctor, who literally masturbated the women to “temporarily” treat the hysteria.
The woman suffering from hysteria would go to the doctor for a ‘pelvic massage to the point of hysterical paroxysm.’
This is how the first vibrators were made, because the doctors found the task tedious and wanted a machine to make it easier.
http://19thcentury.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/female-hysteria/
Never knew I was a doctor….