The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/06/2001 - 208 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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... women " and that of the annual estimated aggregate income of United States physicians of more than $ 200 million , " three - fourths of this sum - one hundred and fifty millions - our physicians must thank frail woman for . " 67 If the ...
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... women . See Wolfe , The Cosmo Report ( New York : Arbor House , 1981 ) , 129 . 62. Sophie Lazarsfeld , Woman's ... Women ( New York : Arno Press , 1980 ) ; D'Emilio and Freedman , Intimate Matters , 80-81 . See also Regina Markell ...