The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/01/1999 - 181 من الصفحات Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device. |
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... Kinsey's book on female sexuality with eloquent in- dignation : The frigid women ( not a mere 10 per cent as Kinsey assumes from the appli- cation of his mistaken yardstick [ i.e. , whether women could reach orgasm by any means ] , but ...
... Kinsey's data in a manner that would have horrified Kinsey.77 Like traditional physicians and many others of his his- torical and contemporary brethren , Degler is reluctant to rock the boat of the androcentric model of female sexuality ...
... Kinsey . That these women were a minority was al- ready known at the time Masters and Johnson made their study , but it had apparently been decided that these outliers represented normality . It is generally held to be a principle of ...