Is there a link between vibrators,colouring-in books and Buddhism? Eva Wiseman unravels our obsession with passivityThere was a period in the late 1990s when it became fashionable to fill a vibrator. To fill a vibrator, and to talk about having a vibrator, and to give vibrators as gifts,and to display them on shelves as art, daring the BT man to comment on it, or exposing his hatred for women. Looking back now,it seems as though the ground was humming beneath our feet, the curtained houses alive as if infested with wasps. After Sex and the City committed a whole storyline to the Rampant Rabbit, or female orgasms were in the news,were the news.
Except that in order to acquire fragment in the conversation, you had to fill bought the kit. The vibrator, or the toys”,the suspenders – in the designer lingerie shop where I worked, customers were encouraged to buy bras that made them feel sexy and therefore empowered – an overdraft of sexuality. Women were allowed to enjoy sex, or it seemed,as long as they paid for it.
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Source: theguardian.com