Bizarre Vintage "Heat Massager"

[Forgotten Man]

And the ad is from Frederick's of Hollywood, a store long famous for peekaboo lingerie and furry handcuffs ...

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lol lol lol

Oh behave!

That ad for that "device" is one of the exceptions to the pure purpose of other electric massagers!

 

[reetpleat]

Doran, when you said very mad Men, were you really referring to the idea of a barber using one on Don Draper's neck? if so, that is pretty funny, given the whole three episode, women's weight loss device arc of the first season. I was quite sure that is what you meant.

 

[reetpleat]

lol lol lol

Oh behave!

That ad for that "device" is one of the exceptions to the pure purpose of other electric massagers!

I don't really think that is just a joke.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I don't really think that is just a joke.

Indeed...no joke..Personal Massagers were last 'pure and innocent right around 1880'....lol

'Personal Massager' has long been the generic G-rated code word for Vibrator.....

From Wikipedia (and YES, I know it sucks as a source...but I am at work....and this isnt exactly a great topic to look up at work...so live with it)



The electrically powered vibrator was invented in the 1880s by Kelsey Stinner to treat what was then called "congestion of the genitalia" and "female hysteria".[citation needed] For centuries, doctors had been treating women for these illnesses by performing what we would now recognize as masturbation. However, not only did they regard the "vulvular stimulation" required as having nothing to do with sex, but reportedly found it time-consuming and hard work.[1]

Then, in 1902, the American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.[2]

The home versions soon became extremely popular, with advertisements in periodicals such as Needlecraft, Woman's Home Companion, Modern Priscilla, and the Sears, Roebuck catalog. These disappeared in the 1920s, apparently because their appearance in pornography made it no longer tenable for polite society to avoid the sexual connotations of the devices.

 

[reetpleat]

Indeed...no joke..Personal Massagers were last 'pure and innocent right around 1880'....lol

'Personal Massager' has long been the generic G-rated code word for Vibrator.....

From Wikipedia (and YES, I know it sucks as a source...but I am at work....and this isnt exactly a great topic to look up at work...so live with it)



The electrically powered vibrator was invented in the 1880s by Kelsey Stinner to treat what was then called "congestion of the genitalia" and "female hysteria".[citation needed] For centuries, doctors had been treating women for these illnesses by performing what we would now recognize as masturbation. However, not only did they regard the "vulvular stimulation" required as having nothing to do with sex, but reportedly found it time-consuming and hard work.[1]

Then, in 1902, the American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.[2]

The home versions soon became extremely popular, with advertisements in periodicals such as Needlecraft, Woman's Home Companion, Modern Priscilla, and the Sears, Roebuck catalog. These disappeared in the 1920s, apparently because their appearance in pornography made it no longer tenable for polite society to avoid the sexual connotations of the devices.

Interesting. To be honest, many men consider certain things time consuming, and hard work. But we do it all the same. Work we love might be the best way to describe it.

Curious that it was the fifth invention using electric power for household use. By most accounts, sex and porn tend to be some of the first uses any new technology is put to. If computers and internet are any indication, this is certainly true. And i won't even go into details about what I hear here and there about robotics.

So, any poets on the board with a good rhyming word for vulvular?

 

[Miss Neecerie]

So, any poets on the board with a good rhyming word for vulvular?

uvular rhymes with it if you push it......but opposite end of a person...

 

[reetpleat]

A friend of mine actually found a weight loss device such as the one in Mad Men and sold it on ebay as such. He got about eighty bucks for it, not quite sure if the mad men reference made a difference.

I found a bakelite handled massager in the thrift store for five bucks. I was ready to post it on ebay convinced there was a vintage personal massager fetish community out there ready to give me big bucks for it. Sadly, they go for ten to twenty bucks. maybe the bakelite handle will help. It does actually work pretty well on my neck.

 

[Forgotten Man]

OK you smart guys, since I'm the one who collects little electric appliances, I've seen different kinds that are just for pains, not "itches" and I own one made for scalp massages and such that barbers used back in those days.

Yes, there are the kind to satisfy an "itch" and they did exist back in those days, but the other kinds were more for just relaxing the muscles and such.

When mark said what he did, I laughed because he said furry handcuffs! lol

 

[reetpleat]

Then, in 1902, the American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.[2]

Is this, perhaps, the origin of the advice to not get your wife a vacuum cleaner or an iron for an anniversary gift?

 

[Forgotten Man]

Well, hate to say it, but one of the first electric vacuums came about 1908, it was called the HOVER! Hamilton Beach made electric motors for all sorts of home and commercial appliances such as malt mixers, fan motors and yes, they made vacuums too... I believe they started to make Vacuums around the early 20s. By the time they started to make Electric cleaners, Hoover was well established and more advanced then most other cleaners.

But, enough of that, back to heated massagers.

 

[scotrace]

What no one can see is how heavily this thread has been edited, making it too much work for the bartenders. That's enough for now.