David Lee Lampert (October 14, 1930 – June 24, 2021) was an American

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pioneer. He studied agriculture at the

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, before becoming a dance instructor after graduation. Lampert invented the

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in an attempt to mitigate what he saw as an unfair shortcoming in women's sexual pleasure. He developed it in conjunction with a medical doctor, and tested it on women at swingers' groups. His company Abco Research Associates was responsible for the sale of both the Sybian, his own invention, and the

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, for which it had manufacturing rights. He lived in

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, where he manufactured the Sybian and Venus 2000 as a family business. In 2010, Lampert appeared on the ''

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'' with the actress

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, who demonstrated the Sybian in action. Lampert received a lifetime achievement award from AVN magazine in 2016 for his work. Lampert died in 2021, at the age of 90.

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