If there was anything I hated, it was investigating the organs of the female pelvis. Sims's invention was developed under rather ethically dubious circumstances, at least by today's standards, according to Kapsalis in Public Privates . Realizing he could invent an instrument that could be held in place by this vaginal suction, he determined that if he could actually see the fistulas he'd been trying to mend in slave women, he could repair them with some success. He fashioned the first speculum out of two spoons and from there performed countless operations on slave women, again without anesthesia, but this time with some success. The economic boon of treating and charging healthy patients, all four authors emphasize, eclipsed any criticism of methods that flew in the face of reason.
Vibration is life.
It will chase away the years like magic. All the keen relish, the pleasures of youth, will throb within you. Granville was not alone in his championing of electrical and vibratory devices which were supposed to improve one's health. Over the next 40 years, the following devices gained legitimacy and popularity. When vibrators began appearing in stag films of the '20s in obvious sexual contexts, they disappeared from doctors' offices and magazine advertisements.