I would like to first say that I am sorry for taking these jokes so seriously. Second, I would like to redact the prior apology, because this was really fun to think about.
This is a vibrating motor taken from a game controller. I won't be explaining how motors work (it's magnets) but they spin really fast. And when you move something really fast (and purposefully make it unbalanced) it creates vibration. Pretty simple, right?
I won't regurgitate the Wikipedia page for "Vibrator (sex toy)," or for the history of electricity; we'd invented the vibrator (not the sex toy (probably)) within 5 years of the lightbulb (potentially a year or so before). This is to say: if there's electricity in the universe of the locked tomb, there are vibrating motors, and if there are vibrating motors, there will be a vibrator.
But... do you really even need an electric motor?
Consider harrow's ability to produce a full skeleton from a single knuckle. Consider also that, while she is devoted to creating anatomically correct skeletons, she can make basically whatever she wants. I don't think it would be a stretch to assume she can change the density of bone, or that she could make precise shapes. In fact, I think that probably any necromancer who can work with bone or cartilage even a little bit could make a vibrating construct, and from there making it into a sex toy would be trivial.
I'm not (yet) mentally in a place to do supply chain analysis of the nine houses, or to look into the concentrations of metals in the planets (to determine which houses would be best equipped to produce vibrators en masse) in order to determine what the material cost of producing them and shipping them to other houses would be. It'd probably also be way more thought into "production of vibrators" than "use of vibrators" anyway, so no great loss there. I think that while electric vibrators exist in the universe of the locked tomb, they are not as common in the nine houses as they are outside the houses (or in real life), in part due to the ability of a necromancer to make one.
We arrive, finally, at my real thesis. In GtN:
First House - Teacher has at least one vibe, likely the other priests have their own.
Second House - Judith would not own or make a vibrator because she's too repressed. Marta would own a vibe that can easily be concealed in luggage to relieve stress in hotels paid for by the cohort on long trips to military contractor conventions.
Third House - Corona would own a few vibes, and Ianthe both owns and makes vibes, but they're (purposefully) weird and fleshy. Babs— do you know the clip of the Jeremy fragrance guy saying, "I [masturbate], but I don't cum" ? I cannot imagine Babs having anything else going on. This mental block prevents me from determining if he owns any sex toys at all.
Fifth House - I see Abigail and Magnus as a basic older het couple, so their sex life is probably like, "white woman who watched 50 shades of grey" style bdsm. I think Abigail owning or using a vibe would emasculate Magnus, but I don't know if she'd feel bad enough not to own one.
Sixth House - both Cam and Pal have electric vibes. Pal has necromantically made them occasionally, but for him the benefits of precise control do not outweigh the drawback of necromantic exertion when a battery powered device works just fine.
Seventh House - Dulcie owns a vibe and has made them— I think she flips between necromantic and electric depending on how she's feeling and what she's looking to get from it. Pro has used vibes in the past with his wife, but what, specifically, they do is none of my business.
Eighth House - Silas and Colum are both too puritanical to consider either option. I think the Eighth probably has a weird anti-masturbation stance, in part due to their weird necro/cav breeding for soul siphoning thing. MAYBE Silas has made ONE, but he'd feel so guilty about it.
Ninth House - Harrow has made and used a bone vibrator in the past, but feels deeply shameful about it. Gideon has seen them in comics and wants one, but due to both how poor the Ninth is (and how poor gideon specifically is), does not own one.
I'd keep going with the other books, but this post is long enough as is. My impulse is to apologize for this, but I've actually decided that all of you are stuck in here with me.
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