Interesting anecdote. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, when there were clothing sweat shops in which the women were working at foot powered mechanical sewing machines, a journalist passing through one noted that every once and a while a seamstress would cry out and collapse on her sewing machine for a few minutes. It turned out that the women had learned how to stimulate themselves via the treadle action of the sewing machine and that this form of masturbation was very common.
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