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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... disorders on the preceding 2,500 years of clinical observation . " I shall have more to say of this at the end of ... disorder was thought to be a consequence of lack of sufficient sexual intercourse , deficiency of sexual gratification ...
... disorders , of which one , chloro- sis or " greensickness , ” had been known well before the nineteenth cen- tury , mainly to practitioners of what we now call " folk medicine . " 47 The symptoms and etiologies of these three disorders ...
... Disorders of the Male and Female , 3d ed . ( Philadelphia : Lea Brothers , 1905 ) , 413 . 112. Russell Thacher Trall , Pathology of the Reproductive Organs : Embracing All Forms of Sexual Disorder ( Boston : B. Emerson , 1863 ) , 139 ...