Once upon a time I told you guys about the Sex Machines Museum in Prague. Well, there is a similar place closer to home (at least for me) in Ann Arbor, Michigan called the Vibrator Museum. Unfortunately, you cannot visit it personally, right now the collection is just an on-line gallery. But maybe we can change this? Hook up collector and curator Mike Campbell with some rich donors now! We need to build this museum with an official ground-breaking ceremony, cheap wine, and dancing sex toys. Or just look at Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavík, there are a lot of real dicks.
Anyway, about fifteen years ago Mr. Campbell began to assemble his collection of manual, electric, pneumatic, and even battery-operated vibrators. This might come as a surprise (or maybe not), but most of his vibrators are more than one hundred years old. Actually the first vibrator, called the ‘Tremoussoir’, was invented in France in 1734. And here’s another sex history lesson…vibrators were one of the first home appliances to be electrified (not long after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster). They were originally invented to treat “hysteria” in women. And most of these devices were not created solely to satisfy sexual needs, but were intended for recreational purposes by means of massage. Okay, enough already…class dismissed.
