![]() I told her I wanted to get the Magic Wand with some flowers I associate with love and joy, roses and daffodils. So I emailed my go-to tattoo artist, Laura Blaney, who’d previously done the pink bows on the backs of my thighs, the flowers on my right arm, and the pen and pencil on my left arm. (Having interviewed the lovely Shay Martin, owner of Vibratex, though, I doubt that would ever happen.) From its popularization at Betty Dodson’s Bodysex workshops in the ’70s and beyond, to its prevalence in queer and straight porn alike, to the dramatic takeover of its distribution by Vibratex in 2014-2015 when Hitachi wanted to stop making it, this vibrator has a story that is so much bigger than just the toy itself – which is part of why I felt like it’d still be okay for me to have it on my skin even if its makers fucked up in some major way. It’s a truly iconic sex toy, one that is deeply entangled with the history of sex-positive feminism. The more that I thought about it, though, the more that the Magic Wand made sense to me as a potential tattoo. Many have been meaningful to me in different ways.
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