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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... tion has had many medical uses in history , I am concerned here only with its role in the treatment of a certain class of " women's complaints . " The vibrator and its predecessors in the history of medical massage tech- nologies are ...
... tion believed frigidity and anorgasmia were healthy conditions ; some felt that an absence of sexual feelings in women was a pathology caused by the stresses of modern life , corsetry , overindulgence in masturbation , or marital ...
... tion is some form of clitoridean orgasm . This can be proved by an admission made by Kinsey on page 584 of Volume II . In his heated polemic against the existence of vaginal orgasm , he claims that " some hundreds of the women in our ...