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Was Cleopatra the Inventor of the World’s First Vibrator?
Some say that Queen Cleopatra was the inventor of the world’s very first vibrator. The legend goes that she took a gourd, or in some retellings a papyrus box, and hollowed it out. She then filled the container with live honey bees to create her very own pleasure machine. But how accurate is this tale? Can we believe that no one had used sex toys until 54 BCE?
Historians describe Cleopatra as a powerfully, even dangerously sexual woman. The Greeks called her “Meriochane,” which means “she who gapes wide for 10,000 men.” This Egyptian seductress was known to have multi-day orgies regularly, and it was no secret that she and Julius Caesar were unfaithful to one another.
Cleopatra does appear to have had her fair share of carnal needs. Such needs could indeed have led her to try to create a method for pleasuring herself. Thanks to modern scientific advances, we know that honeybees flap their wings at rates as high as 230 times per second. Could that have created enough vibration? After much research, it seems highly unlikely, and this story is now widely understood to be a myth.
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