By Barry Bowen
Sex toys are nothing new, and the exponents of the world's oldest profession have throughout recorded time employed gadgets, devices and stimulants of one type or another to help enhance their clients' enjoyment.
The name that comes most readily to mind, and certainly the original in the field, is the dildo, the obvious reason being that it provided a simple substitute for a male erection and was portable.
The oldest dildo known to Man was unearthed relatively recently in Germany – a nine inch polished siltstone device that's been dated around 28,000 years old.
Coining of the term "dildo", however, did not come about till the 15th century in Renaissance Italy. There are two suggestions as to how the word came into currency. The Greeks had always called the device an olisbo, which is reckoned, might have become "dildo" from the Latin infinitive "dilatare", meaning to open wide; the other school of thought holds that it's derived from the Italian "diletto" meaning delight.
In any event, Renaissance dildos, made out of leather or wood, were not very pleasurable in their basic form, and required lubrication with some olive oil. The dildo evolved not surprisingly into the vibrator, and the first one of these to be made was the handiwork of an American doctor named George Taylor. His product was a cumbersome steam-powered apparatus, intended for treating "female hysteria", the incorrect diagnosis of women experiencing sexual arousal.
Victorian thinking decreed that women did not get sexually aroused, so a woman getting irritable, delusional and working up "excessive vaginal lubrication" was not recognized as needing a man; she was thought to be diseased. The cure was prolonged massage of the sufferer's vulva until she climaxed, which was inconveniently time-consuming, so Dr Taylor's device was a God-send to his confreres.
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