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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... therapist Gustaf Zander's European equipment for therapeutic exer- cise was the model for most spa machinery between ... physical therapies , the Salpêtrière in Paris . Significantly , their first use was on hysterical women . 123 Some ...
... therapies sim- ply as routine clinical tasks , the necessity for such stimulation did not interfere with their own sexual enjoyment , as it reportedly did with male sexual partners . Doctors who employed physical therapies for hysteria ...