The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 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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... late 1870s , but the first electromechanical vibrator to be internationally mar- keted to physicians was the British model built by Weiss . Designed by the physician Joseph Mortimer Granville , the device patented in the early 1880s was ...
... late 1970s figures for women who do not regularly reach orgasm in coitus.61 Sophie Lazarsfeld in the mid - twenti- eth century said that " the proportion of frigid women , according to the scientific investigators , varies between 60 ...
... late 1880s , they continued to be widely advertised and sold . The Census of Manufactures for 1905 noted that electrotherapeutic apparatus worth more than a million dol- lars was manufactured “ in no fewer than 66 establishments ...