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The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Technology of OrgasmFrom the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of western medical practice. This is an account of hysteria and its treatment through the ages, focusing on the development, use and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.
Full description- Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 February 2001
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Gender Studies: Women | Sexual Behaviour | History Of Medicine | History Of Science | Electronics Engineering | Sex & Sexuality, Sex Manuals
- ISBN 13: 9780801866463 ISBN 10: 0801866464
- Sales rank: 116,420
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Full description for The Technology of Orgasm
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.
