• @shalafi
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    12 days ago

    People from the 70s would laugh out loud at how prude we’ve become.

    SOURCE: Am from the 70s and laughing.

    • @LovableSidekick
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      12 days ago

      Hells yeah. Hot pants! Also men’s shorts knew their place in the natural order and weren’t trying to be pants.

  • @Soup
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    1112 days ago

    This can’t possibly be real, can it?

    • @ladicius
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      4912 days ago

      Always has been. No joke, vibrators were advertised as massage devices since the 50s. Mail order war the way to go long before the first sex shops opened.

      And they really are massage devices. I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back, and sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses when they are blocked during a cold (roll a soft cloth around the vibrator and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds, free airways for the win).

      Very useful devices I’d say.

      • @shalafi
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        1712 days ago

        “shake free” the sinuses

        That’s genius and you need to use every excuse to spread it around.

      • @LovableSidekick
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        312 days ago

        That’s amazing. Sounds like my one experience with Sinex nasal spray. It was like turning on a faucet.

      • @dohpaz42
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        212 days ago

        I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back

        😏

        sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses…and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds

        😏

        Double entendre FTW! 😁

      • @LovableSidekick
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        312 days ago

        I know right? You could buy flamethrowers and they outlawed lawn darts.

  • TaldenNZ
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    512 days ago

    Can confirm here in New Zealand too. Well into the 80’s in the relative mainstream, and even seen up to at least the mid-90’s in mail-order catalogues (of general household goods).

  • @LovableSidekick
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    412 days ago

    I remember seeing these as kid back then. Clueless.

    • @bamfic
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      312 days ago

      Sued? Or criminally prosecuted? IIRC many states in USA had laws against dildoes and vibrators till recently, or still do