• @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    People from the 70s would laugh out loud at how prude we’ve become.

    SOURCE: Am from the 70s and laughing.

    • trashcanM
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      128 months ago

      I’ve come across enough novelty stuff from that time to become sad at where we ended up.

    • Lovable Sidekick
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      8 months ago

      Hells yeah. Hot pants! Also men’s shorts knew their place in the natural order and weren’t trying to be pants.

    • @ladicius@lemmy.world
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      558 months ago

      Always has been. No joke, vibrators were advertised as massage devices since the 50s. Mail order war the way to go long before the first sex shops opened.

      And they really are massage devices. I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back, and sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses when they are blocked during a cold (roll a soft cloth around the vibrator and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds, free airways for the win).

      Very useful devices I’d say.

      • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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        228 months ago

        “shake free” the sinuses

        That’s genius and you need to use every excuse to spread it around.

      • Lovable Sidekick
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        38 months ago

        That’s amazing. Sounds like my one experience with Sinex nasal spray. It was like turning on a faucet.

      • dohpaz42
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        28 months ago

        I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back

        😏

        sometimes I use it to “shake free” the sinuses…and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds

        😏

        Double entendre FTW! 😁

  • TaldenNZ
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    58 months ago

    Can confirm here in New Zealand too. Well into the 80’s in the relative mainstream, and even seen up to at least the mid-90’s in mail-order catalogues (of general household goods).