The doctors then explained those symptoms to the woman’s womb, and the treatment to relieve their patients of hysteria was the pelvic massage to induce orgasm, then believed to restore the female patient to full health.īecause providing the pelvic massage was considered a “tedious, boring and physically demanding task,” Dr J Mortimer Granville invented in 1880 the vibrator which he had patented. Mashable reports that the Victorian doctor who invented the vibrator intended it to replace manual massage of the female pelvic area to induce “hysterical paroxysm.” During that era, the massage was the treatment for hysteria which was characterised by anxiety, irritability and bloated tummy.
The vibrator is a female and gay sex toy used often as a substitute for a male genital to help a person reach climax or it could be used as a foreplay tool by couples, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
