Rabbit vibrator

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A rabbit vibrator (also known as a Jack Rabbit vibrator or Jessica Rabbit vibrator^[1]) is a vibrating sex toy, usually made in the shape of a phallic shaft for vaginal stimulation with a clitoral stimulator attached to the shaft. The device's name is derived from the fact that the clitoral stimulator looks like a pair of rabbit ears. The first rabbit vibrator appeared on the market in 1984 and, along with the magic wand vibrator, is considered by Cosmopolitan magazine to be one of the classic sex toys.^[2]

Their popularity was boosted in the United States after an episode of HBO's Sex and the City ("The Turtle and the Hare"^[3]) featured Vibratex's Rabbit Pearl. The rabbit was chosen for the show because it was a bestseller at a store in New York.^[2]

Rabbit vibrators are designed to give more intense sensations than the more traditional dildo or clitoral stimulator by providing simultaneous vaginal and clitoral stimulation.^[4] The Rabbit Pearl, the original device, also had a rotating section.^[2]

Since then, the rabbit vibrator has evolved and become a whole genre of sex toys with many different brands and variations in design, including ones with a less phallic shape or without the rotating beads section.^[2] The device can be used in a variety of ways and for both solo sexual play and during partnered sex.