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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... hysterical and sexual manifestations . He notes that " hysterical seizures usually bear a close relationship to the unconscious fantasy : in particular , women sometimes exhibit convulsive body movements , or become rigid , with the ...
... hysterical complaints ( or complaints so called ) make one half of the remaining third . As to females , if we except those who lead a hard and hardy life ... hysterical paroxysm an orgasm . FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY 31.
... hysterical neuroses in women were caused by lack of sexual gratification , but within a few decades Freud's became the dominant paradigm.93 His definition was retroactively applied to all supposed cases of hysteria , modern or ancient ...