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 b…

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