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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction

By Rachel P. Maines

Book information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0801866464, 9780801866463
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3476224 bytes)
Series
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Edition
1
Pages
208\0
Time added
2013-10-31 02:56:43
Библиотека;Соблазнениелюбовьотношения;Для двоих;Секссекс

Description

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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