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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... desire of Carnal Imbracement , which desire disthrones the Rational Facul [ ty ] so far , that the Patient utters wanton and lascivious Speeches ... [ Although it mainly affects virgins and young widows , ] it may also betide married ...
... desire for heterosexual contact and " turgescence " of the female gen- italia with orgasmic resolution . Third , as we have seen , the sexual symp- toms called " hysterical paroxysm " were observed by doctors who seem to have had little ...
... desire participated in regular sexual relations . " D'Emilio and Freedman go on to say that " most [ nineteenth - century ] women who com- plained that their husbands neglected marital sexuality stressed their desire for children rather ...