Passion & Flower, a documentary by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick, chronicles the invention of the "greatest medical discovery ever": the vibrator!
The film chronicles the invention of the vibrator and its impact on sexual politics by tracing it from a labor saving device invented by doctors to cure women of "hysteria" to a household product manufactured and sold by mainstream companies such as Sears Roebuck, General Electric and Hamilton Beach. In the 1920s the vibrator goes underground and is re-discovered during the rise of feminism in the 1970s.
In 2004 the astonishing story continues in Texas when a housewife
is arrested for selling vibrators to two undercover cops posing as a dysfunctional couple. She had broken a state law. Texas and three other states have enacted these laws as a backlash to the feminist movement. In these states, however, it is legal to sell Viagra. This case has far-reaching contemporary implications for sexual freedom, civil liberties and the right to privacy.
Link - via The World's Fair
I don't see why I want to be owned by any other than myself. It's high time the government/authority stopped their blundering attempt to intervene in personal matters other than their own individual personal issues.
But since I live in a blue state, where's my Good Vibrations catalog?
We shouldn't leap to conclusions about why the laws were put into place. The real reason is shoddy workmanship on the part of the original vibrator manufacturers, and the grisly results Several vibrator-related fatalities occurred in the 1950's. Men returned home from a hard day at the office, to find their wives sprawled on the floor of the kitchen, their faces contorted in a combination grimace of ecstasy and pain. Their suppers were unprepared, cold, or burnt.
A related law was passed restricting the use of the vacuum pump for men, due to a number of grisly mutilations in the 1970's.
I was going to say thank goodness we live in enlightened times, except of course in the U.S. these laws were made and still exist for who knows what reason. America - the land of freedom. Yeah right.
i think we should take a moment of silence to remember those physicians who created the vibrator.
(zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...zzzzz)
thank you.