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The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction

The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population
Print Book, English, 1999
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999