Mark Fennell

In her masterclasses, Betty gave women a vibrator to use on themselves.

But the thing is, this vibrator was not sold as a sex toy.

It was actually a 1968 back massager called... The Hitachi Wand, which is, you know, globally iconic.

When you go back and you look at that incredible discovery that we started with, the second century Roman dildo, and you look at all of these different fragments of history over the years that you've spent so much time unearthing, understanding, what's the story that it tells us about women that history so often missed?

Kate Lister, you are a bloody delight.

This has been so much fun.

Dr Kate Lister is a sex historian, an author, a podcaster.

Her latest book is called Flick, The Story of Female Pleasure.

This episode was produced by Zoe Ferguson.

The sound engineer was Angie Grant.

And No One Saw It Coming is made on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia for ABC Radio National.

I'm Mark Finnell.

Thank you so much for listening.

And if you want to get in touch, you know where to find us.

You can just email us at noonesawitcoming at ABC Radio.

I'll be back next week with a brand new episode.

Two men are in a lab and they've been working hard to try and make antifreeze.

They mix two chemicals together and expect to make a clear liquid.

Instead, they end up with this black mess.

It is not what they had in mind and they have to start all over, but it's late, so they decide to go home and deal with the mess in the morning.