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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo, apparently, in San Francisco, there's a very *ahem* interesting museum...
https://roadtrippers.com/places/antique-vibrator-museum-san-francisco/525d5a864203c348dd0004b8?mode=exploreGood Vibrations' founder, Joani Blank, collected antique vibrators for over 20 years, which prompted their customers to begin sending the vibrators they found at flea markets and their relatives' estates.
The vibes are a collection date from the late 1800s up through the 1970s. Dozens of styles of electric vibrators, just like those in their exhibit, were available to the discriminating medical professional -- and very shortly thereafter, to home consumers as well.
They display alongside their company collection online and in their San Francisco Polk Street Store.
The vibrator was marketed as a home appliance in women's magazines and mail order catalogs. Ads proffering "health, vigor and beauty" promoted the vibrator as a health aid.
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So, apparently, in San Francisco, there's a very *ahem* interesting museum... (Original Post)
TheMightyFavog
Oct 2013
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. Hahahaha
How's the parking? If I'm ever in the neighborhood ...
R B Garr
(16,975 posts)2. Wait. You can find vibrators at flea markets!?
And I'm going to start keeping a closer eye on those relatives' estates!
Gee, you learn something new every day.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. Still haven't watched the movie
Good Vibrations' Antique Vibrators Featured in "Hysteria"
http://antiquevibratormuseum.com/hysteria.html
Aristus
(66,462 posts)9. Great flick.
Loved it!
Of course, it had Maggie Gyllenhaal in Victorian garb, so it was well worth watching...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)4. If you ever get to Jeju Island in South Korea there is a sex museum
I haven't seen it, but have heard from others that it is interesting.
LNM
(1,080 posts)5. There's one in Amsterdam as well.
It's very interesting and interesting to watch how other people react. Some giggle, some laugh and some blush.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)6. And since 2002 - in NYC -
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)7. San Franciscans: "Are we having another earthquake?!
Oh, wait, no. That's just the vibrator museum."
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)8. Nice...
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)10. We're going to be down there in January.
This is a point of interest we've never visited before.