From NewsFilter.org: A book by Rachel P. Maines called The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Maines originally found ads for electromechanical vibrators in magazines from the turn of the century when she was researching needlework She discovered that water-powered, steam-powered and hand-cranked vibrators were in clinical use as early as the 1860s. By the 1880s, electromechanical vibrators were common, and by 1900 they were marketed for home use. Full Story.
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Vibrators were invented to save doctors of the arduous task of massaging a woman’s genetalia to relieve her Hysteria. It’s a tough job.