Sex toys through history

By Matty Silver
Updated September 20 2012 - 3:03pm, first published September 7 2012 - 10:28am
Sexual awakening ... Maggie Gyllenhaal in <i>Hysteria</i>.
Sexual awakening ... Maggie Gyllenhaal in <i>Hysteria</i>.
Mechanical solution ... Hugh Dancy demonstrates an early vibrator prototype in <i>Hysteria</i>.
Mechanical solution ... Hugh Dancy demonstrates an early vibrator prototype in <i>Hysteria</i>.

Some months ago the movie Hysteria was showing, a light hearted romantic comedy set in London in the 1880's. The story is about how the British physician Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville, played by Hugh Dancy invented the first mechanical vibrator.

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