From the Ancient Greeks to Bluetooth Vibrators

The sex toy industry is one of few industries that's both a grower and a shower. It's worth billions of dollars and is constantly expanding with new products. However, getting to this point wasn't easy, and it took a lot of time.To get more news about 国产国产精品人在线视, you can visit our official website.

When you think of sex toys, you probably think of some gizmo or gadget that runs on batteries, has a USB charger, or is somehow linked to an app, but in reality, sex toys have been around for centuries.

It all started in 29,000 BC when Neanderthals in the Swabian Jura region of what is now Germany began carving rocks into phallic shapes. We don't know for sure whether they were using them as sex toys, for fertility ceremonies, or whether they just thought it was hilarious to carve penis rocks, but we do know that they paved the way for the modern-day sex toy industry.

Sex toy creation got a little more innovative—and a lot weirder—in 500 BC, when ancient Greeks started whipping up fake dongs using all kinds of materials. Some were made out of brass or stuffed leather. Some were, for some reason, made out of old loaves of bread. They called them olisbokollikes, which is almost as hard to pronounce as it is to wrap your mind around. While we don't recommend you try that, it's definitely a waste-conscious and budget-friendly way to go. Those freaky Greeks also pioneered lube by using olive oil.

By 1300 AD the sex toy industry was really taking off, especially in ancient China, which innovated Ben Wahh Balls filled with animal semen, cock rings made of goat eyelids, and double-sided dildos. What a time to be alive! The actual word dildo wasn't coined until around 1400 AD, though, during the Italian renaissance. It stems from dilett o, which means pleasure.

In the 1600s, French sailors pioneered sex dolls by bringing "women" made of straw on long, lonely trips, calling them "dames de voyage." By now, even Shakespeare is buzzing about sex toys, mentioning dildos by name in his play, "A Winter's Tale." Naughty, naughty!

In 1800s-era England, fragile men began labeling anxious or unhappy women with having hysteria. While we'd like to say this was a short-lived "medical diagnosis," it lasted well into the 1950s. Aiming to have these women relax, it was "treated" with intense genital stimulation, among other things.
Hysteria spread like wildfire, and doctors and their feeble hands couldn't keep up, so the story goes that they invented vibrating machines to make women orgasm with less effort. At the time they called them "manipulators," but we've come to know them as vibrators. The first "manipulator" was created by American doctor George Taylor, but Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville created the first patent, disturbingly named Granville's Hammer.