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[kokosbolla.livejournal.com]

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.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/2867.html

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure

Clearly, they were doing it wrong.

[kokosbolla.livejournal.com]

:-)

[salenelle.livejournal.com]

Am I naive? Wouldn't there be a handful of doctors that actually enjoyed bringing the women to orgasm, or is that a modern pass time?

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

The history of vibrators is one of my favorite things ever....

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I definitely agree with that assessment. Greatest medical discovery EVER.

[garden_hoe21]

Hear, hear!

[sueg.livejournal.com]

Oh, that one really needs to be made into a poster!

[garden_hoe21]

Now I can't rest until I open a sex shop and call it "Glad Tidings."