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

Author(s) : Rachel P. Maines

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

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  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Published : 1999
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 8095
  • ISBN 13 : 9780801866463
  • ISBN 10 : 0801866464
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From Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging "hysterical" female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians. This text traces the vibrator from its beginning as a sanctioned therapeutic instrument to its fall from respectability and then reappearance as sex aid 129

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