An update from SuperDave and a tingly question

[SolidMechanic]

Here is a slideshow on the history of the vibrator, care of Slate.

I copied an interesting blurb:

The use of vulvular massage as a therapy for "hysterical" patients dates back to Hippocrates. During the 19th century, it caught on as a treatment for the rampantly diagnosed afflictions hysteria and neurasthenia. The doctor of Alice James, the sickly sister of the famous Henry and William, probably brought her routinely to "hysterical paroxysm."

Those doctors didn't know what they were doing, but they knew they were onto something. I like the phrase "hysterical paroxysm." Very descriptive.

SM