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Your Grandmother's VibratorA slide-show history of the vibrator.

By Teresa RiordanPosted Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, at 6:26 PM ET

Read more from Slate's Sex Issue.

Click here to launch a slide show.This week, Slate is publishing a series of articles devoted to everyone's favorite pastime—sex. We'll be taking a look at the ways sex has slipped into nearly every aspect of our society—from politics to culture to medicine. In honor of this special issue, we offer a 2005 slide show about the history of the vibrator. Despite its modern reputation as a device of carnal pleasure, its origins are surprisingly sterile.

Click here for a slide show about the history of vibrators.

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Teresa Riordan is the author of Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations That Have Made Us Beautiful.
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