Homes and Property | Home PageVictorian vibrator!Run away, run away!Metro Reporter13 April 2012This 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.The London Science Museum, Exhibition Road South Kensington SW7. Nearest Tube: South Kensington.To find out more call 0870 870 4868. MORE ABOUTHealthcareInventions And InnovationKensington And ChelseaMassageMuseums