The vibrator: from medical tool to revolutionary sex toy
Many of us have heard it before: in the 19th Century, doctors first used vibrators to treat women for 'hysteria' - a now-defunct medical term that covered everything from headaches to nervous breakdowns. The treatment was to give the women an orgasm. Using a vibrator saved these doctors the arduous task of doing it by hand.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181107-the-history-of-the-vibrator