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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... devices ( fig . 3 ) fea- tured a padded table with a cutout for the lower abdomen , in which a vibrating sphere , driven by a steam engine , massaged the pelvic area.62 - Swedish efforts to produce a mechanical massage device on the ...
... devices that rhythmi- cally interrupted the current ) , were used to control dental pain.66 Audrey Davis says that subsequent developments included " a spectacular range of devices ... for applying heat , electricity , water , x - rays ...
... devices in the hands of the unscrupulous . He says that electricity combined with massage , exercise , and good diet can be a useful regimen in some maladies , but that " without such thera- peutic accessories , electricity , like ...