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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... male superiority would rest entirely on the statis- tically greater potential of the male biceps and deltoid muscles , which did not in themselves seem equal to the task of sustaining patriarchy in Western civilization . Female orgasm ...
... male authorities who advocate the superiority of emotional orgasm in women [ " peaks of feeling " ] suggest that whatever provides the greatest satisfaction for the male should also provide the greatest pleasure for the female . It is ...
... male orgasm in coitus , a study has suggested that conception is aided by female orgasm from one to forty - five minutes after ejaculation by the male . See Beth Livermore , " Why Women's Orgasms Matter , " Self 16 , no . 2 ( 1994 ) ...