You know what its like, you are waiting to see the doctor/dentist, your gynaecologist and you start flicking through the assortment of 3 year old magazines and just as you are getting into a good article out they come and call you in. Well, wicked Winnie here just tears the article out first so then if I’m called I have it to finish later!

On one such occasion the other week I found a particularly interesting article and thought you members may be interested in the subject matter!! ‘VIBRATORS’

‘The Surprising Truth about What turned Women on for a hundred years’

It was in the September 2003 edition of Good House Keeping magazine, I would have thought their answer to such things was to wrap them up in greaseproof paper and bake at gas mark 3 for an hour. Here is an abridged version of the article.

Nowadays there seems to be a pill for anything and everything. Recent surveys tell us that 43% of women are sexually dysfunctional at some time in their lives. ‘No orgasms Madam?’ just pop along to the doctor and all will be fine.

It’s a curious full circle because bringing a woman to orgasm was a staple of medical practice right up to the 1920s. It was a cure for hysteria – the womb {hysteros in Greek} was the root of the problem and only paroxysm could release the pent up perils.

Single women were urged to marry immediately for the sake of their health, and for widows and women of a religious sensibility, doctors recommended rides on rickety bicycles or bumpy trains!!! But failing the 10.45 from Ely, vulval massage would do the trick. Astonishingly this wasn’t seen as sexual because it was in medical hands, and of course as all good professional men knew, women didn’t have orgasms unless penetrated by a man.

But doctors showed no enthusiasm for the task considering it difficult and time consuming, and that’s when technology came to the rescue. The first electromechanical vibrators appeared in the United States in the 1880’s and with machine capable of 30,000 pulses a minute its amazing women didn’t go up in smoke!! In fact vibrators were electrified a full decade before the vacuum cleaner or iron. Only in the 1920’s, with appearances in early porn films, was the vibrator driven from respectability, finally reappearing in the 1970’s as a marital aid.

Nowadays, vibrators are openly on sale. Selfridges even had one in a window display. More vibrators are now sold in Britain than washing machine or tumble dryers. Two thirds of British homes admit to having one which makes sex toys more popular than pussy cats!!!

Well that’s all for this time and don’t forget to lubricate!!