Is your personal massager wand dual purpose?
In season 5, episode 6 of Sex and the City, Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha feels frustrated that her vibrator is not taking her to climax. The 2002 airing depicts her going to her neighborhood Sharper Image store to return the device. Once in the store, she unapologetically explains to the retail worker that the vibrator is failing her. The clerk argues that the device Samantha is holding is not a vibrator, but a personal massager wand he calls a “neck massager.” He claims, “Sharper Image does not sell vibrators.”
This is one of Sex and the City’s most memorable and widely discussed episodes. Why? It is not that fans are put off by the show content or character lines. Instead, the HBO hit series’ writers seemed to get the plot very right. After all, among ladies, who has not wondered where the line exists between “neck massagers” and vibrators? To drive the point of the episode further, later in the same plotline Samantha uses her new vibrator as a personal massager wand to quiet a colicky baby named Brady.
This begs the question of whether the personal massager wand is dual purpose. Is it a vibrator? Or is it a neck massager?
History of the Best Vibrator in America
In show 6 of Sex and the City in 2002, the aforementioned vibrator episode, Samantha holds a personal massager wand very similar to the Hitachi Magic Wand. Hitachi has a long history of calling its neck massager is a vibrator, despite the latter making its device a hot seller in the United States and other countries.
Instead of giving into its fame as a vibrator, Hitachi still asserts that the 12″ long device is solely designed as a personal massager wand for healthcare purposes. Hitachi brought its product to America in 1968 for that purpose, to provide a means of self-massaging sore necks and aching muscles in consumers’ private homes coast-to-coast. The FDA approved it for that purpose, as a physical medicine device in the category of therapeutic electric massagers.
In the 1970s, after noting the personal massager wand’s quality as a vibrator, writers and reporters started publishing articles and books discussing this use. Artist and sex educator Betty Dodson was the first to do so, writing about a unique method of using the device as a masturbation aid. She even structured her Bodysex workshops for women around use of the Hitachi Magic Wand. From that time forward, more and more articles were published in mainstream magazines like Cosmopolitan.
Today, the Magic Wand is still known as the “No. 1 greatest gadget of all time” and “most recognizable sex toy on Earth.” But Hitachi detached its brand from its patented handheld personal massager wand In 2013. After well over 40 years of its production and incredible sales worldwide, Hitachi no longer wanted its name associated with a “sex toy.” For this reason, consumers can now find the famed personal massager wand sold under the brand Magic Wand Original, even though Hitachi still makes the device.
Is your personal massager wand dual purpose?
Hitachi’s recent branding change for their device seems to admit that it is a vibrator. Still, consumers can choose how they use the personal massager wand. Because the wand’s rounded head has body-safe silicone and is non-porous, it is easy to clean after its use. Using a quality anti-bacterial sex toy cleaner can take your vibrator safely from your pleasure zone to a sore neck, tight shoulders and other aching muscles needing relief.
The Magic Wand’s patents and approval by the FDA list the wand as a physical medicine device used for therapeutic electric massage. It just so happens that the 5,000 and 6,000 vibrations-per-minute speeds work extremely well for achieving orgasm. Notably, these orgasms are not just for women, anymore!
The personal massager wand, Magic Wand Original, works wonders for men seeking a more pleasurable sexual experience, too. Both women and men can find an array of wand attachments and accessories to customize the device to suit their sexual needs. Men enjoy attachments like the P-Spot and M-Gasm, as examples. Women adore the Ride-N-Vibe, Tantric Tongue and Dolphin.
You Decide How to Use Your Magic Wand
Maybe one day you need a neck massage. Then the next, perhaps the mood strikes you for masturbation or couple play. Whichever your desire, the Magic Wand Original and full line of Magic Wand devices, attachments and accessories suit both needs. Armed with antibacterial toy cleaner and an open mind, it is up to you to decide how you want to use your Magic Wand. That is what is so “magic” about Hitachi’s award-winning, world-renowned device.
