Vibrators

It's a sexual health episode! This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the hotly debated medical history of vibrators and ask: who fact-checks the fact-checkers? 

Note: A previous version of this episode included language that referred to “the female downstairs,” implying both that gender is linked to genitals (it isn’t) and that vibrators were used primarily by cis women (they weren’t). We love our trans listeners and we don’t want to do anything that makes them feel excluded, so we’ve removed the sections where that language appeared. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike


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Links!

• The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines
• Buzz by Hallie Lieberman
• Signior Dildo
• Hysteria! trailer
• Vibrators had a long history as medical quackery before feminists rebranded them as sex toys
• A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm
• How Gosnell Duncan Changed the Sex Toy Game Forever
• Victorian Doctors Didn't Treat Women With Orgasms, Say Historians 
• (Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong

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