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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This museum’s buzzing collection honors vibrator history. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/good-vibrations-antique-vibrator-museum

Transcript

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0:00.0

Parents, just a heads up, we're going to be talking about some grown-up topics today,

0:06.5

like SEX.

0:08.5

Okay, with that, onto the show.

0:14.5

Welcome to San Francisco.

0:18.6

Hop off that cable car and walk with us to 1620 Polk Street.

0:23.4

Inside this building, you'll find a series of glass cases, and they're filled with

0:28.3

strange, clunky-looking machines.

0:30.6

Some have hand cranks, others are in the shape of hair dryers, and you might think to yourself,

0:36.5

what is this?

0:37.5

Some kind of collection of antique blenders?

0:40.5

It's not.

0:41.5

These...

0:42.5

Well, the vibrators.

0:44.9

You heard me.

0:45.9

Vibrators.

0:46.9

I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Atlas Obscura.

0:51.0

A celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

0:55.0

Today, we are taking you on a tour through the Good Vibrations and Teak Vibrator Museum,

1:00.2

and along with it, a short history of SEX and Sexuality.

1:04.2

That is after this.

1:25.2

The Good Vibrations antique vibrator museum is about the size of a living room,

1:29.8

and in glass cases around the walls, arranged in chronological order, are about 100 vibrators,

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