The technology of pleasure has come a long way, and thank god for that. 

Sex toys these days look like cute little aliens. They’ve figured out how to make them in fun colors, smooth textures, and strangely friendly shapes. They’re like if a deep sea fish was turned into a friendly cartoon. But back in the day, this wasn’t the case.

Vintage vibrators look terrifying. They had to be plugged in with terrifying, thick wires. Many of them feature sharp, cold metal and crusty wood. And just by the nature of what old electronics look like, it appears as if they’d electrocute the first thing they touch. Which considering where these devices went, is really bad news.

Here are a bunch of old sex toys that look like they were used to get information out of witch trial women.