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The technology of orgasm "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction

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.

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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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"@en
  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Llibres electrònics"

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  • "The technology of orgasm : hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual statisfaction"
  • "The technology of orgasm : hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"
  • "The technology of orgasm "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"@en
  • "The technology of orgasm "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"
  • "The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"@en
  • "The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"
  • "The technology of orgasm : "hysteria", the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"@en
  • "The technology of orgasm : "hysteria", the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"
  • "The technology of orgasm : "hysteria, " the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction"@en

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