![]() In Paris, she said, customs cautiously pulled it out of her bag. Karp was so attached to her Magic Wand–she uses it only on the low speed (“High could kill you!” she said)–that she got a voltage adapter so that she could take it to Europe. She’s already been through six in as many years, since her friend, author Lisa Palac, recommended that she give up the battery-operated vibrator she had in favor of the plug-in wonder. I’m so upset,” said Marcelle Karp, the 36-year-old co-editor of hip feminist magazine Bust, when The Observer told her of the possible demise of the Magic Wand. She reckoned, “I’m almost 30, so I’d say four would probably last my lifetime.” Taormino and a friend considered scouring the sex shops to stockpile Magic Wands. Taormino, who is a niece of Thomas Pynchon. Among lesbians especially, it’s considered something as necessary as your toothbrush,” said the bisexual Ms. Taormino also uses her Magic Wand on her neck, “to work out a kink or something. Taormino recalls feeling for the disappearance of the device she said “could shake the enamel off your teeth.” On occasion, Ms. “Shock and horror” were the emotions that Ms. “For everybody in love with their vibrator it was, ‘Aaahhhh! ‘ It was major panic.”Ībout a month ago, a friend e-mailed the news to Tristan Taormino, a sex columnist for the Village Voice and author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. At press time, two Magic Wands could be found on eBay, one for $69 and the other for $74, and the bidding was fierce.Ī frisson of horror spread through New York’s community of female self-lovers. Scholl’s (yup, the foot pad guys) released about the same time that the Magic Wand was becoming scarce. ![]() Dodson went shopping to find a replacement, just in case. Upon calling the 800-HITACHI customer service number, a company representative in Illinois confirmed the news, adding that the computer was showing no new distributor. “ was screwing up: slow payments, not fulfilling orders, customers were complaining,” said one source familiar with the situation. Hitachi had apparently canned them and had not found a replacement. Dodson received word from her Magic Wand dealer, a sex shop in Boston called Grand Opening, that there was some trouble between Hitachi Japan’s suits and the Appliance Corporation of America, Hitachi’s American distributor of shavers, bread makers and massagers. “They can’t keep them in stock,” he said.īeyond high demand, something else was amiss. Kaminetsky said that he’s noticed that Magic Wands have become harder to find over the years. The vibrator is a very effective way to masturbate, and the Hitachi Magic Wand, if not the best, is one of the best vibrators out there.” Dr. “I tell women who are having problems with orgasms to masturbate. “The thing is legendary,” said Jed Kaminetsky, a Manhattan urologist who specializes in male and female sexual dysfunction. “I’ve been using a vibrator since 1968, and my clit has never dropped off,” she enthused. Dodson advises Magic Wand newbies to place a folded washcloth between themselves and the Magic Wand to soften its jackhammer-like force, she did say it was safe. “But it’s the difference between riding a tricycle and a Honda 900.” Although Ms. If you like the little battery vibrator and it works for you, fine ,” she said, sounding like she didn’t really think it was fine at all. She can’t remember exactly how many Magic Wands she has gone through over the decades, but she does know that she’ll never, ever use anything that requires batteries. “If you ride your Wand for an hour or more, you can go into altered states of consciousness. Sex toy company Good Vibrations once dubbed it “the Cadillac of vibrators.” (Hitachi at least pretends that they don’t know what all these women are doing with their product each Magic Wand comes with a diagram of “pressure points” like the back and neck, neglecting the one that releases the most tension of all.) Of all electric massagers, the $45 appliance has the most devoted following: After biking through an on-air spinning class last year, Rosie O’Donnell reportedly gasped, “It’s better than that Magic Wand!” Dodson has been moaning the praises of the 12-inch-long, two speed, Hitachi Magic Wand, with its tennis-ball-shaped head. And ever since that day back in the early 1970’s when, to her horror, she discovered that Panasonic had discontinued her then favorite massager–the Panabrator–Ms. ![]()
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