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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... electric fustigation , can become fifteen years younger . " Electrotherapeutic currents were also rec- ommended for nymphomania . Presumably the treatment for nymphomania differed from that for impotency - perhaps a reversal of polarity ...
... electrotherapeutic devices in the hands of the unscrupulous . He says that electricity combined with massage ... Electrotherapeutic sup- pliers who sold equipment primarily to physicians were much less flam- boyant in their advertising ...
... Electro - therapeutic Handbook ( New York : Manhattan Electrical Supply , [ 1900 ] ) , and Keystone Electric Company , Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Electrotherapeutic Appliances ( Philadelphia : Keystone Electric , [ ca. 1903 ] ...