Most people never thought of when and how an electric vibrator was invented. The common misconception is that this device was created for women. Quite the contrary – according to the creator of the vibrator, it was intended for men who could not relax.
At the end of the 19th century, a British physician patented the first electric vibrator in the world, but the first ones to enjoy the invention were his male colleagues.
The inventor named his creation “Hammer.” The ingenious doctor was weak, and feared the unexpected success of his invention. Joseph Mortimer Granville admitted in his little book on “the vibration of the nerves,” written in 1883, that he would never test this device on women. He said that his invention most likely was meant to relax the clenched muscles in male patients.