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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... questions raised by this issue . I look forward with interest to the results of current inquiries by evolutionary biologists , reproduc- tive physiologists , and physical anthropologists . The question of female orgasm in history is ...
... questions about orgasms . " Significantly , she also reports that " all but a small number ( 20 percent ) of respondents said they did not feel cheated if they did not experience orgasm during sex , " and that " three - quarters of the ...
... questions that a woman's claim to enjoy sex means orgasm in coitus , even when his sources explicitly deny any sensual dimension to their pleasure.76 Carl Degler's work on female sexuality exhibits the same androcen- tric bias as Gay's ...