[PDF.18tx] The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

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 | #141534 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2001-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.45 x5.50l,.54 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Androcentric sexuality is inefficent|By C. Robinson|The main theme of Rachel Maines' _The Technology of Orgasm_ is that throughout history people have adopted an androcentric perspective on sex, even though the penis is not the most effective or most efficient means of producing orgasms in women. Although nearly three-fourths of women regularly do not orgasm during intercourse,|.com |For centuries, women diagnosed with "hysteria"--a "disease paradigm," in Rachel P. Maines's felicitous phrase, thought to result from a lack of sexual intercourse or gratification--were treated by massaging their genitals in order to induce "paroxysm." Ma

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, ...

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