The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women\'s Sexual Satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines

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

Rachel P. Maines

208 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 loathe...

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