Thorough, original, and surprising. -- Sarah Boxer New York Times Book Review Full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes. -- Jeanette Winterson Times (London) Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book. -- Carol Lynn Mithers L.A. Weekly Exhaustively researched... decidedly offbeat. -- Natalie Angier New York Times Here's a provocative history with a chip on its shoulder and a buzz under its skirt... Exhumes startling facts from the underground sexual history of the early twentieth century. -- Will Blythe Mirabella Maines has produced an exhaustive and deliciously savage history of the vibrator-as-sex-aid... This fascinating and exquisitely referenced true story reads like twisted science fiction. Library Journal A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten. Journal of the American Medical Association