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Pictures created by people who knew full well how they could be interpreted. For pictures to fit in here there needs to be an element of plausible deniability, although it can be a tenuous one...

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 93 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Personally this doesn't feel like true theyknew material, because this is one of those "this is how they had to advertise because nobody would allow them to say the real purpose of the items" rather than "suggestive thing presented as normal with a lot of rib-to-elbow action and stifled giggles behind the scenes, often hidden from management"

It's one of those "it fits the literal definition but not the spirit" situations. Idk Maybe it's just me.

It'll never not be funny though

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In India they’re still advertised exactly like this

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (10 children)

You're right, Chief.

And that sort of thing had been commonplace since the Victorian times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SScVqAytfHU&t=405

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Contoured to use comfortably around eyes, brows, chin and other parts of the body

Wasn't this supposed to be a facial massager, sir?

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gentle, penetrating massage

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"...About seven inches long..."

[–] illi@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

High impact plastic...

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Perfect size for most "purses"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ok buddy sure

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

What is "Overheard in the ED more often than anyone'd like to know"?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Two C batteries? That thing is a beast.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nah, things were much less energy efficient back then.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I actually wish more devices used C and D batteries as those last longer.

I especially hate when a device uses AAA batteries when AA would easily fit.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My stylus uses AAAA batteries which was the same exact sound I made when AAAs didn’t fit inside.

Also fun fact inside of a 9V is a bunch of AAAAs you can pop out because who the fuck keeps AAAAs on hand

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What?? I refuse to believe the blocky 9V is just a few AAAAs in a trenchcoat.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, it is. 6 cells of 1.5 V each, wired in series. That’s also why the 9 V block has both poles on the same side.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought having both poles close by was to lick and get a little shock

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Last few I've pulled apart contained a stack of 6 oblong, coin shaped batteries. Disappoint.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not really. Things don't magically get better just because time has passed. Efficiency reaches a plateau, and the laws of thermodynamics prevent any further improvements.

Since it's a battery operated device, they're almost certainly using brushed motors. Those are less efficient than brushless, but brushed DC motors are cheap and easy to run from a DC source. The complex electronics to run brushless motors only got cheap in the last decade or so, and there's still plenty of sex toy vibrators that use brushed because it's easy and doesn't take much space in the device.

The difference isn't even that big. About 75-80% efficient for brushed, and 85-90% efficient for brushless. The extra complication of electronics isn't always worthwhile even today. The basic mechanics of this stuff was invented over a century ago and was all but perfected decades before OP's advertisement ever existed. It can't be better than 100% efficiency, and it's already pretty close to that. Unless someone comes up with a really clever design that gets brushless efficiency with little to no additional electronics, there's not much improvement to be seen.

Batteries, OTOH, have improved by leaps since then.

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[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think they meant girthy

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 2 years ago

In case madame needs to pour some concrete in a pinch and has to remove any air bubbles

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Actually not really. Even the D type batteries would have smaller circumference than the average.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

I meant more in terms of longevity.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The size of the battery only adds capacity, not power. You gotta increase voltage.

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[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The women's faces, just 👨‍🍳😚👌

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

I feel bad for the people who bought them and never thought to use them anywhere other than their face.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All I see is that it costs 4,99

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that hairstyle was popular in the mid-1960s - if I'm right, that's roughly $50 in today's money.

Edit: source is https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ using the year 1965, and the official US government inflation calculator seems to concur.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Im guessing the year is 1970. That $5 is equivalent to $31 now.

Bought right for a cheap, but otherwise quality vibrator.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are Aliexpress vibrators roughly that price right now. They probably break right away, and the plastic is questionable to insert into the human body, but they exist.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Plastic from that era probably has the same descriptors.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would sure be traumatizing, if I just remembered finding this facial massager with a bunch of oddly interesting magazines next to my parents bed, when I was a young boy...

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure would be. It was traumatizing enough asking my mother what a minstrel is, and getting a detailed explanation of menstruation instead. Too soon, mom!

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

wife-hack of the 50s

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I'm so American that the only thing I can see is a bullet.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we still have products that use completely different advertising on purpose like this ?

[–] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think the Hitachi Magic Wand advertises (or rather used to advertise the last time I looked at it) itself as a muscle massager and doesn't mention anything sexual.

But it's probably the most popular wand vibrator people use

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I’m pretty sure I bought a baby blue one for my gf 18 years ago.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Possible explanation for my husband's "don't chip your teeth" jokes?

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Imagine being out to brunch and your good Christian Judy whips out a vibrator and nonchalantly goes to town on her face

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