The Steve Jobs of the sex industry? Designer believes his iPhone-inspired vibrators can break the taboo around sex toys

Not so taboo: Vibrators were quite comfortably advertised in the early part of last century, as this 1913 advert shows

More than 50 per cent of American women have used one, making it nearly as ubiquitous as a coffee maker.

But as a shopping item, the vibrator is a topic that remains taboo across most of the modern world, even if the products have been around almost as long as electrical devices.

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