There's not much to add to this other than...ouch!
1949 was not a good year for the treatment of prostatitis, was it?
Hat tip to Modern Mechanix.
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Not to be vulgar, but you realise this was probably just a clever way of selling sex toys without running afoul of decency laws...
The product's name really needs an extra "d" in it.
Think that's bad? I watched the History of Sex (on what channel? History Channel of course) and Americans came up with the most ridiculous cover-stories for obviously sexual products and it was often the portal of lots of bad pseudo-science. One example was a "prostate warmer," which was basically one of the first dry-cell batteries invented, hooked up to a butt-plug like the bit on the product you're showing us and a lightbulb on the other side.
It didn't do anything, other than make you feel stupid.
Does it stimulate a man's abdominal brain like the one Aerik mentioned?
This is roughly akin to the female sex toys marketed as "massagers".
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I don't think this is a salacious as is looks 60 years later.
Yeah, first thing I thought upon seeing this was, "hey, probably a lot of people without any health issues were thrilled to get one of these!"
Not to say it wasn't a legitimate health treatment at the time, but there are... dual uses!
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