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Vibrators come in so many varieties that it is often difficult to keep them straight. Truth is this selection of vibrators makes it great for women and men to find the perfect vibrator for the woman in your life.
When many people think of sex toys they think of vibrators, rabbit vibrators, jelly vibrators, mini vibrators and more. Vibrators are the quintessential sex toy as many people think of vibrators whenever sex toys are mentioned. They come in many styles, colors and sizes as women have different needs and desires as well.
Vibrators have been around for well over a hundred years and while many are battery operated others are electric and while most vibrate, thus the name, other oscillate and still others move up and down mimicking the motions of a man who rarely vibrates or oscillates. When the first vibrator was made it was to help cure women who had a condition known as female hysteria. Wouldn't you know that women would be diagnosed by men as having some hysterical condition having largely to do with sexual desire and a lack of fulfillment.
Today, thankfully women who have sexual desires are considered normal and vibrators are simply a tool to increase pleasure and not to decrease hysteria. While looking back into the history of vibrators is interesting it is not the focus of this article and will be left to another day. We would like to look at vibrators today and what styles and functions vibrators perform that makes them worthy of spending money to purchase them.
Originally vibrators were designed for vaginal insertion and the vibration was little more than an attempt to replace the male member. Likely the vibration function was easier to produce rather than trying to make a tool that moved in and out of a woman's vagina. Making a vibration is somewhat elementary while creating a plunging or up and down motion is more difficult and expensive. Early vibrators were also marketed to the general public in such mainstream outlets as J.C. Penneys and Montgomery Wards and Sears as ways to relieve headaches, body aches and the like. No mention was made as to the sexual uses of an early vibrator. Then, in 1902, the American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.[3]
The home versions soon became extremely popular, with advertisements in periodicals such as Needlecraft, Woman's Home Companion, Modern Priscilla, and the Sears, Roebuck catalog. These disappeared in the 1920s, apparently because their appearance in pornography made it no longer tenable for polite society to avoid the sexual connotations of the devices.
Today while many attitudes have changed concerning sex and vibrators it is still illegal to purchase vibrators in certain states in America and vibrators are not the subject of polite conversations due to the sexual overtones. Truth is while some women and men may use vibrators for other reasons the overwhelming majority use it for sexual purposes. Since vibrators have been around for well over 100 years how have they advanced or improved? Vibrators have reaped the benefit of improvments in technology and mass production thus allowing virtually every woman in the industrialized world access to vibrators at a reasonable cost. Often overlooked the early vibrators were bulky, electric, expensive and anything but convenient. Modern day vibrators are light weight, mostly battery powered, inexpensive to reasonable with many vibrators available for less than $10.00 and discreet. Imagine one of the earliest vibrators buzzing loudly, weighing many pounds and being impossible to hide in addition to being out of reach financially to 99% of women. Today quite the opposite is true as vibrators have evolved into user friendly items to often do more than just vibrate. Vibrators vibrate and what does that have to do with the natural movements of our hands, tongues or sexual organs? The answer is not much, but vibrations can be pleasurable as well as stimulating so no one is complaining but the future holds some improvements as well.
So around the 1920's the vibrator went underground as the "pornographers" as well as many others found out that they weren't just for physical well being as they were often touted. The vibrator was no longer marketed by mainstream vendors as it was "associated" with sex. Today we may look at those attitudes with amusement but in that time a product that was used for sexual purposes was taboo. Improvements in vibrators did not come about for approximately another 40 plus years. While my mother had a "vibrator" it was really a metal appliance that resembled a dog or pet shaver that weighed 2-4 pounds, had one speed and attachments that were "meant" to massage ones scalp, sore muscles and the like. Undoubtedly it was used by many for sexual purposes but there was little doubt it was not designed for that purpose. The first problem was that the metal portion became extrememly hot very fast and had to be shut off. The interchangeable heads were bulky, stiff and again could be used for a lot of purposes but not user friendly. She was "prescribed" this massager that had an image of a woman rubbing her scalp on the box, for the treatment of migraine headaches.
Today you can certainly purchase massagers at multiple retail outlets and they tend to be big, electric and while again they can be used for sexual enjoyment, their design makes them difficult to hold for any period of time due to their weight and they don't fit into small places very easily. Vibrators on the other hand are not sold in general retail locations and are likely ergonomically designed or at the very least have low weight and weigh less than a pound. Vibrators are designed for women down to the colors which are often designer colors or soothing swirling mixtures that are not unappealing. Highly efficient you don't hear many complaints about overheating or metal casings although I am sure metal vibrators are available at the higher end of the market. Most are high impact plastic with the color embedded into the plastic or a thin coat of paint. Further many coatings are not plastic or painted as we will discuss further.
While early vibrators in the past fifty years were limited to vaginal insertion and not much more vibrators in 2008 continue to supply the market for women who simply want vaginal insertion with the ability to use the vibrator for clitoral stimulation if they desire. More and more vibrators are for specialized purposes and designed just for clitoral, anal, g-spot and multi use vibrators such as the rabbit vibrator and its descendants. While no one really knows for sure it is likely that most uses of vibrators have been developed with new improvement to come in power, versatility and color and style options. That is not to say that a new vibrator won't be developed but it is safe to say that women's bodies are going to grow any new body parts, anyway that is another article altogether.
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