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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... orgasm.18 Medical authorities as recently as the 1970s assured men that a woman who did not reach orgasm during ... male superiority would rest entirely on the statis- tically greater potential of the male biceps and deltoid muscles ...
... orgasm in themselves through masturbation , as Symons observes when he summarizes Kinsey's and Hite's research reporting that most women , like most men , can mastur- bate to orgasm ... male insatiability in more than one male mind.4 The lack ...
... male erection , and penetration . " Vance goes on to describe one of the presentations , in which a psy- chiatrist recounted work with couples who reported " the female's inabil- ity to experience orgasm ... orgasm through penetration but not ...