I saw an entire History Channel special about the early vibrators, and it was fascinating. Especially the thought of all these doctors making money off women who came to them for "treatment". And then the inventing the vibrator to make their lives easier.
The special also had some early Sears Roebuck type catalogs selling electric vibrators for home use. Apparantly one of the first home electrical appliances.
Anne, no need to whitefont--someone put it in press already.
while set in post-Katrina New Orleans
Yup, it's the Braugher show. It's only retroactively set in post-Katrina New Orleans. This show has been in the works for over a year--Colin auditioned for it something like 18 months ago. One of the black belts at krav is executive producing it.
Braugher's better than I've seen him since Homicide.
I saw an entire History Channel special about the early vibrators, and it was fascinating. Especially the thought of all these doctors making money off women who came to them for "treatment". And then the inventing the vibrator to make their lives easier.
I confess to some curiosity as to whether anyone ever invented a pedal-powered one.
I confess to some curiosity as to whether anyone ever invented a pedal-powered one.
No idea, but there were (YOWCH) steam-powered ones.
the technique was difficult for a physician to master and took hours to achieve
...Huh. Do you think, once it started stretching into the hours region, that women started simulating paroxysms?
Braugher's better than I've seen him since Homicide.
Huh. Sometimes I wish I had cable.
I confess to some curiosity as to whether anyone ever invented a pedal-powered one.
Or hamster powered.
The advantage of using hamsters to power one is it'd provide a convienent measure of the energy required. "Looks like a five-hamster night," etc....
House: omgtheirloveissopure
Dawn's in trouble... must be Tuesday.
House:
OMG, the dad is Lance Guest, the Last Starfighter.