Coming up next on the passionately married podcast, you know, I'm looking at for me,

but I also want for you what you want. So I think it takes a perspective that

cares about the spouse cares about what they want. And it makes me feel good when you get what

you want. And I can be help be a part of that. But I also enjoy when I get what I want.

Yeah, it's the one thing that's pitfall about the win-win to me is it's exchange based in some

regards. It is. Pam, did you know how the vibrator came to be an electric device? Have you heard

the history lesson associated with this? No, I don't know this. So in the late 1800s there was

actually a medical diagnosis for women that was called hysteria. So the symptoms included anxiety,

nervousness, and sexual desire. In other words, it sounded like they were walking around fairly

horny in a lot of way. Sexual nervousness, okay. So a pair of prominent physicians estimated that

actually three-quarters of American women were at risk. So they would go to the doctor where he

would provide a treatment called the pelvic massage, okay, with me so far. I'm with you. So the

prescription was of a literal orgasm was a treatment for hysteria and it actually dates back even

before that some medical texts refer to the first century AD as a prescription that would be used

for this. So healthy massage was used to achieve what doctors called peroxiasm and it's the treatment

by these doctors. Well, hold on, but the treatment by the doctors would actually make them quite tired.

The doctors tired. Yes, it would because it was sure lots and lots of women were coming in for

this treatment. And so it was Joseph Mortimer Grandville. He had the genius idea and invented a

device that did the hard labor for the doctors in the early 1880s, okay. So he invented the first

electro-mechanical pleasure probe vibration therapy and it became hugely popular. So by the turn of

the century needlework catalogs actually advertised models for women who wanted to try the treatment at

home. Thus making the vibrator the fifth electrical appliance to arrive in the home after the

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