The Technology of Orgasm

副标题: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction

ISBN: 9780801866463

出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press

出版年: 2001-3-1

页数: 208

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.