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Speaker 1: From house top works dot com. Hello and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. This is Molly and I'm Kristin Kristen. Let's

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Speaker 1: dive right in to some statistics our favorite thing, all right,

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Speaker 1: and it will I think we'll ease us into the

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Speaker 1: topic of the day. Okay, So I want to talk

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Speaker 1: revealed that about half of American adults use a vibrator

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, on a regular basis, and that

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Speaker 1: using vibrators. And what was interesting about this study in

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Speaker 1: but what was really interesting was that the women who

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Speaker 1: more likely to do self examinations to make sure that

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Speaker 1: do testicular self exams too. So basically, the study was

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Speaker 1: showing that these people who use vibrators tend to take

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Speaker 1: better care of all their their special parts, and the

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Speaker 1: women and men also who were using the vibrators also

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Speaker 1: tended to rate a little bit higher on sexual satisfaction. So,

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Speaker 1: with no further ado, maybe we should back up hundred

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Speaker 1: from with vibrators, because these days we might associate vibrators

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Speaker 1: but their history is purely rooted in medicine. Medicine, very

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Speaker 1: um and very you know, no eyebrows ray East. When

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Speaker 1: was it was non controversial all whereas you know, you

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Speaker 1: people like, oh my gosh, all like people using vibrators.

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Speaker 1: But I think the link is that the better sexual

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Speaker 1: health and the better health overall kind of links the

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Speaker 1: modern statistics to this history. We're going to go back

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Speaker 1: considered far less controversial than the gynecological speculum. Right, because

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Speaker 1: purely external use. But let's talk about why you might

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Speaker 1: be using a vibrator in the Victorian era. In the

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Speaker 1: first place, one word hysteria. Steria gripped a nation, many nations.

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Speaker 1: The women just kept coming down with hysteria from from

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Speaker 1: early early times. Like you've got people like Hippocrates Galen

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Speaker 1: in nineteen hundred BC, ancient Egyptians blamed hysteria, which we

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Speaker 1: hysteria would have been vigorous horseback exercise or movement of

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Speaker 1: all the fun. But right around that same time, vibrators

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