“Unlocking Pleasure: The Surprising Truth Behind the Great Vibrator Myth That Everyone Gets Wrong!”
However, as time went on, manufacturers grew more and more explicit in their marketing, filling their advertisements with images of shirtless men and women in low-cut tops with coy taglines like “Invented by a woman who knows a woman’s needs.” Of course, physicians and moral guardians were perfectly aware of what these products were being used for behind closed doors, with one 1912 men’s advice book warning that:
“Various electric vibrators have been abused by the unscrupulous … to give vibratory massage of the generative organs … a sensation similar to that of masturbation.”
But thanks to the narrow tightrope of plausible deniability vibrator manufacturers managed to walk, there was nothing the prudes could do to stop this illicit trade. Indeed, when in the 1950s the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a major campaign against personal vibrators, their concerns had nothing to do with masturbation. Rather, they sought to crack down on the outlandish and unsubstantiated health benefits still being claimed by vibrator manufacturers.
But thanks to obscenity laws and conservative social attitudes, it was not until the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s that women began to more freely talk about masturbation and vibrators. In the late 1960s, New York sex educator and artist Betty Dodson began hosting women-only masturbation workshops to help women regain the sexual knowledge long denied them by society, writing in 1974 that:
“I have found that the vibrator gives me the strongest and most consistent form of stimulation and is especially good for women who have never experienced orgasm.”
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