Guess What That Is?
This bizarre contraption was a real turn-on for women in the 1930s - as a
vibrator.
The machine - designed to "cure" randy women of their sexuality - will go on
display tomorrow night at the London Science Museum's Dana centre.
Doctors invented the vibrator to speed up the treatment of genital massage, but
it soon found its way into the bedroom.
Curator David Rooney said: "It looks more like a hairdryer. At the time this was
state of the art. This is what people were using.
"It wasn't shameful at all. Everyone pretty much knew what was
going on but because of the way they talked about it, it was all right."
The one-off "Sinful Things" discussion night will lift the lid on old-fashioned
attitudes and medical practices to sex and bodily functions.
A Violet Ray kit from the 1940s - used to combat baldness, haemorrhoids, acne
and impotence - will also be on show, as well as a nineteenth century
self-inducing enema syringe.
The syringe was developed as a result of the once commonly-held belief that
illness was a result of an inbalance of four substances inside the body: black
bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood.
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