In the 1970s a group
of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that
ultimately changed the way sex was talked about, had, and enjoyed.
Boldly reimagining who sex shops were for and the kinds of spaces
they could be, these entrepreneurs opened sex-toy stores like Eve’s
Garden, Good Vibrations, and Babeland not just as commercial
enterprises, but to provide educational and community resources as
well. In Vibrator Nation Lynn Comella tells the fascinating
history of how these stores raised sexual consciousness, redefined
the adult industry, and changed women's lives. Comella describes a
world where sex-positive retailers double as social activists, where
products are framed as tools of liberation, and where consumers are
willing to pay for the promise of better living—one conversation,
vibrator, and orgasm at a time.