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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... Shere Hite's original questionnaire about women's sexuality ; the prospect of responding to it was too depressing to contem- plate . The same year I saw the vibrator ads , I read The Hite Report , which shed new light not only on my own ...
... Shere Hite of Hite Research , Joel Tarr of Carnegie - Mellon University , and my ) ) ) former students at Clarkson University in Potsdam Acknowledgments I.
... Shere Hite attacked the Masters and Johnson results in 1976 did questions begin to be raised about their methods of selection and interpretation . Errors of this kind not only have prevented us from understanding female orgasm as a ...