Victorian vibrator!

This bizarrely-shaped vibrator - which looks like something across between a metal hair-dryer and some kind of whisk - was designed to cure women of 'hysteria' in the 1930s.

Before its invention, doctors would give patients an intimate massage, presumably to relieve them from 'stress'.

The device is part of a display at London's Science Museum which explores Victorian attitudes to sex.

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