In antiquity, women who had anxiety, mood swings and depression were sent by their husbands to the doctor, who diagnosed them that they suffered from a disease called "hysteria". Their treatment was based on a "pelvic massage" with the purpose of achieving hysterical paroxysm, now known as orgasm.
There were so many women who began to attend consultations to do their "treatment for hysteria" that doctors at the end of the workday were exhausted and their hands were shaky; that's why they decided to invent a useful device that produced rhythmic vibrations and achieved easier and faster hysterical paroxysms in the patient without the need for the common manual massage: this is the origin of the vibrator.
At that time it was seen as a healing artifact, even the richest women had them in their homes for when they felt "bouts of hysteria".
That is a common misconception. Egyptians used to put bees in cylindrical tubes way way back in the day. Though the only record of it was about one of the Cleopatra's.
@honeybee111 Pretty good, deals with the whole "female hysteria" thing in the late 1800s and the invention of the vibrator by a doctor with hands tired out by constantly masturbating his female patients to relieve their stress.
Often they would also be sent to madhouses by their husbands if they didn't like them where they were sedated and confined. PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder) is also a thing as of the DSM IV and describes the normal hormonal changes that occur and is treated with anti-depressants, which is an example of disease-mongering in modern psychiatry.
I'd read that a precursor to the modern 'vibrator' was a genuine massage device originally nicknamed Granville's Hammer after it's creator Joseph Mortimer Granville and it's said that he "argued specifically that it shouldn’t be used on hysterical women".
@revenant It predates Freud. Jean-Martin Charcot in France was bee doing experiments on this before him. He was treating women terribly and charging to witness them but so did Freud.
