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Friday, December 22, 2023

And now you know

It can be unsettling thinking about your grandmother or grandfather having sex or, heaven forbid, using a vibrator. But your ancestors (well, maybe not yours specifically, but someone's ancestors) definitely used sex toys.

Granted, their sex toys weren't made from the finest purple silicone, but they still got the job done. And isn't that all that really matters? Here's a brief look at sex toys throughout history — from the bizarre and hilarious to the straight-up genius.
-WiscoDave

9 comments:

  1. I'm not so sure about the algorithm there. The very next video/article it dropped at the tail end was in praise of Father/Daughter interactions. Kinda made my eyebrows raise for a second, till I saw what it was about. Troll successful.

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  2. About 50 years ago, we - meaning my brother and sisters - found the device shown in the middle picture, in my parents bedroom.

    We thought it was great and played with all of the time. My dad was prolly saying 'if they only knew the amount of nastiness on that thing...'

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  3. Yeah, I remember one of those Oster, back of the hand, vibrating massagers around our house when I was a kid. I choose to believe that it was an innocent scalp massager. I remember seeing the little blue sparks inside of it which were visible through the holes on either end.

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  4. Older folks liked to talk of virginity. All white for the bride a sign of virginity. Some of the cooler women would say, do the math for the first child. Married one year but had a baby in the first six months. Happened all the time.

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  5. I remember right after sex ed in health class, I added my my parent's wedding date and my birth date and marched up to them demanding to know why they never told me I was premature.

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    1. My older sister, born seven months after my parents wed, was two months "premature", they assured us. Weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces. Guess she really made up for lost time toward the end.

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    2. It's interesting that the 1920s Polar Cub was manufactured by A.C. Gilbert, better known for bringing us... the ERECTOR SET. Heh.

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    3. I was 7 when I did the math and figured out I was born 5 months after the wedding. My mom tried to convince me the wedding notice I found had the year wrong and was 72 not the 73 in the notice.

      Exile 1981

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  6. my mom lovingly called me "her oops baby"!

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