Sex Toy, 1952

What did a heavy-duty electric vibrator look like in 1952? Here, I’ll show you:

Don’t try and tell me this wasn’t being marketed for its unlimited orgasmic potential. Just look at that first line of the copy: “Like a magic wand, the spot reducer obeys your every wish…”

From a full page ad in the August 1952 issue of West magazine.

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Recto Rotor: “Reaches The Vital Spot!”

Like it says in the ad: “The Recto Rotor is the only device that reaches the Vital Spot effectively. No other appliance is so constructed: none other able to reach the Vital Spot to such good purpose.” Yup, this lubricating dilator (fancy butt plug) will fix your prostrate “trouble” right up, in the most pleasurable fashion! I do purely love the way early sex toys got sold right out in plain sight as quack medical devices:

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Vintage Sex Toys, Illustrated

An alert reader, who remembered this post about vintage sex toys, found the following image on the most amazingly horrendous Russian hijacking-pop-ups image-sharing site you can imagine:

(A beautiful large version is also available.) The artwork looks Japanese to me, but if the lettering proves me wrong, I’ve got no way of knowing it.

One feature in common with the photos previously blogged is the rigid shaft-stiffening-cage thingy shown in this detail:

Sadly, I don’t have any idea how old this artwork is, although it certainly doesn’t appear to be at all recent.