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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... producing orgasm in women because it was a job nobody else wanted . There is no evidence that male physicians enjoyed providing pelvic massage treatments . On the contrary , this male elite sought every oppor- tunity to substitute other ...
... orgasm " inspires interest , debate , polemics , ideology , technical manuals , and scientific and popular literature solely because it is so often absent , " unlike " the male orgasm ... producing orgasm in themselves through 3 "MY GOD, WHAT ...
... producing orgasm in themselves through masturbation , as Symons observes when he summarizes Kinsey's and Hite's research reporting that most women , like most men , can mastur- bate to orgasm in a little over four minutes , even though ...