Ok, another funny story that I have from the ECRW conference....
So I made friends with a lovely young thing named Alicia Aho, who, btw, had lovely red hair and the best speaking voice ever. Very deep, and intelligent. Whereas, I tend to sound like a hyperactive lap dog. (
arfarfarfarfarfarfarfarfarfarfarf!!!!) Is it normal to notice those things about someone? Probably not. But I did. So sue me.
But anyway, she is in the midst of selling (She's got an editor interested!! Wahoo for her! She rules my world!) her book, which is entirely to complex to explain, though completely compelling and I am dying to read it. But for research, she had to look into the history of the....*ahem*....
vibrator. (oh come on, all of you stuffy old bags...we all know what they are! And it was a
romance conference what did you expect!?)
So anyway, we're sitting down to dinner, and Alicia launches into telling us what her research found. Basically, they were devices that were used for "medical procedures" when women got to "moody or depressed". And before they had the "device", they would do it.....wait for it....
manually. Ok, so the theory was (a hundred years ago): If a woman was unreasonably grumpy,
get her off, and the problem was solved. Can you imagine going to your doctor for
that??
I darn near spit my salad across the table. No joke. I was in hysterics. It didn't help that this Alicia was telling me all of this while keeping a completely straight face and presenting the information in a very smooth, deep, wise voice. I've never laughed that hard in my life. In fact, I got
shushed. I mean, what kind of a moron gets herself SHUSHED during a sit down Filet Mignon dinner in the Bellevue Hilton?
Me, that's who.
Oh well. It's a fun fact to share at parties. "
Hey, guess where vibrators started?"
I'll never be invited over for casserole again.
Brooke Moss.
