The Technology of Orgasm
"Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Rachel P. Maines
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"A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as medical tool for the treatment of hysteria...A book that can delight as well as enlighten." -- Anna Meyers, Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Rachel Maines's book is full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes." -- Jeanette Winterson, Times (London).
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History, Female orgasm, Vibrators, Anorgasmy, Masturbation, Vibrators (Massage), Sexual behavior, Women, Orgasm, New York Times reviewed, Women, sexual behavior, Female Genitalia, Masturbation--history, Genitalia, female, Sexual behavior--history, Women--sexual behavior--history, Female orgasm--history, Anorgasmy--history, Vibrators--history, Hq29 .m35 2001, 612.62| Edition | Availability |
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
March 1, 2001, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press
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in English
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Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
2001, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The technology of orgasm: "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction
1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
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The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction
1998, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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"In 1653 Pieter van Foreest, called Alemarianus Petrus Forestus, published a medical compendium titled Observationem et Curationem Medicinalium ac Chirurgicarum Opera Omnia, with a chapter on the diseases of women."
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First Sentence
"In 1653 Pieter van Foreest, called Alemarianus Petrus Forestus, published a medical compendium titled Observationem et Curationem Medicinalium ac Chirurgicarum Opera Omnia, with a chapter on the diseases of women."
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The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population.
This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.
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