Vibrators

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Wellness, Health & Fitness, History, Education, Science, Health

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that comes in discrete packaging,
0:16.0	so your neighbors don't find out.
0:18.4	You really nailed it.
0:20.6	I'm Michael Hobbs.
0:21.6	I'm Aubrey Gordon.
0:22.8	If you would like to support the show, you can do that at patreon.com slash Maintenance
0:26.2	Phase, this month's bonus episode by popular request of nonprofit employees is Mike and
0:33.9	I talking about our experiences working at nonprofits.
0:36.2	So if you couldn't get enough of that, Mary Ann Williams in episode get ready.
0:39.5	Non-profit drama.
0:40.5	So much drama.
0:41.5	We're doing it.
0:42.5	And today this is about, so we're going to talk about the history of vibrators and particularly
0:46.3	like a heavily debated part of that history, which is who invented them and what were
0:53.1	they used for.
0:54.1	Oh.
0:55.1	Yeah, we're going to get into the ins and outs of primary sources and why they may not
0:58.8	always be the end all be all.
1:00.4	You cannot say ins and outs in an episode about vibrators.
1:03.4	We can't go down coldest acts like that.
1:08.0	Tighten it up, Aubrey.
1:09.0	Come on.
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