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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... Marriage and intercourse were thought to be curative in many cases . When hysteria was diagnosed , " If she be married , let her forthwith use copulation , and bee strongly encountered by her husband , for there is no remedy more ...
... married to good husbands in due time , hence these tears , that's the primary cause , and this is the ready cure ... marriage was best for hysterics but that friction of the vulva by a physi- cian or midwife could be employed if the ...
... Married Woman , 35-43 . 74. Gebhard et al . , Sexuality of Women , 122 . 75. Ann Landers , " What 100,000 Women Told Ann Landers , " Reader's Digest 127 ( August 1985 ) : 44 ; Charles Leerhsen , “ Ann Landers and ' the Act , " " News ...