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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... frigidity or in women's total indifference to sexual stimuli was popular with both physicians and the public . One theory was that in the hysteric , frigidity and insatiability were combined in women who went from lover to lover seeking ...
... frigid women , according to the scientific investigators , varies between 60 and 90 per cent . ' Of this re- portedly rampant female frigidity in the late nineteenth and early twen- tieth centuries , John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman ...
... frigidity as “ the incapacity of woman to have a vaginal orgasm during intercourse ” ( italics in the orig- inal ) , responded to Kinsey's book on female sexuality with eloquent in- dignation : The frigid women ( not a mere 10 per cent ...