In ancient times, women who suffered from anxiety, mood swings and depression were sent by their husbands to the doctor, who diagnosed them as suffering from a disease called “hysteria.” Its treatment was based on a “pelvic massage” with the aim of achieving hysterical paroxysm, known today as orgasm. So many women began to attend consultations to receive their “treatment for hysteria” that doctors were exhausted and had cramped hands at the end of the work day; so they decided to invent a useful device that produced rhythmic vibrations and achieved hysterical paroxysm in the patient more easily and quickly without the need for the common manual massage: this is the origin of the vibrator. At that time it was seen as a healing device, even the wealthiest women had them in their homes for when they felt “hysterical outbreaks.”
