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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... pleasure ) in conjugal sex , and how in successful treatment , the patient experiences " simul ... delectatio & dolor " ( pleasure and pain at the same time ) . This too echoes earlier descriptions . He describes the release of fluid ...
... pleasure by receiving male semen . Although Avi- cenna , apparently a realist about female sexuality , was careful to caution his readers that this pleasure would not be adequate to satisfy the female partner , Giles and other writers ...
... pleasure in heterosexual activity indicate regular experience of orgasm . In a section of The Education of the Senses appropriately titled " The Dubious Certainty of Numbers , " he consistently assumes female orgasm during penetration ...