Sarah boxermarch 21, Technology of Orgasm, hysteria, vibrator, and sexual satisfaction of women. By Rachel P. Maines. Illustrated. 181 pp.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. $22.
The book was naive at the beginning.
Author Rachel P.
Meins, a needlework historian, is looking through the old copies of modern Priscilla, needlework, and the woman's family partner, and suddenly discovers them: 1906Imagine that.
The electric vibrator was invented after electric sewing machine, fan, teapot and toaster before electric vacuum cleaner, electric iron and electric frypan.
Who knows that everyone cares so much about women's happiness?
Deep enough to be placed on a clean house and crisp shirt, or on evenly baked toast.
At 1918 Sears, Roebuck & Company provides vibrator accessories for household Motors, which can also drive stirring equipment, mixers and sewing machines.
In 1922, two portable vibrators were described as "such a pleasant partner ".
There is also an advertising promise, "all the fun of youth. . .
Will be beating inside you
"Alas, the invention of the vibrator has nothing to do with the love or sexual liberation of the afternoon.
It turned out to be a Labor.
Help doctors give female patients a "hysterical attack" preservation device--
That is the climax.
What do doctors in the advertising world do when they bring female patients to their climax?
The answer is simple, but the fingers are tired.
The complex answers are given in Maines's short, stimulating, repetitive, and occasionally frustrating book the technique of orgasm: hysteria, vibrator, and sexual satisfaction of women.
Maines believes that the vibrator is the last of a range of devices and technologies used to combat hysteria.
All the way through Galen, Ivy League, paracessu, Parley, Burton, and Harvey, starting with the hipoklata
In the 20 th century, doctors fought bravely against this terrible disease.
Mainz explained that the trouble is that the disease they are fighting is ordinary female sexual desire.
Classic symptoms of hysteria-
"Anxiety, insomnia, irritability, tension, erotic fantasy, heavy feeling in the abdomen, edema under the pelvis and vaginal lubrication "--
It is a symptom of chronic awakening.
If this is hysteria, the recommended treatment is perfectly reasonable.
In the 16 th century, married hysterics were told that "the husband met strongly ".
For single women, widows, nuns and unhappy married women, "healing is achieved through strenuous horseback riding exercises, by moving the pelvis on swings, rocking chairs or carriages.
But the most common treatment, summed up in 1653, is to have a doctor or midwife massage the genitals with one finger, with Lily, Musk, saffron oil or something like that.
In this way, the suffering woman can be inspired.
The best treatment should be the one in which the patient feels happy and painful.
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Basic treatment has not changed for thousands of years.
In all these times, Mainz wrote, "only a handful of medical authorities advocating female genital massage as a treatment for hymen" acknowledged that the crisis created by this was the culmination. ''Why not?
If doctors admit that they are sex slaves, they will have to give up what the mainstream says is "a male-centered pattern of sexual behavior", that is, sexual behavior is twostep process --
Penetration and male orgasm-
This is also enough to bring most women to a climax.
Although most women (
According to Shere Hite and others, about 70%)
Maines believes that do not reach orgasm in this way, need some kind of direct clit stimulation to reach orgasm, and the male central model has always existed because it is convenient for men.
Blaming women for their own frustration, calling them indifferent or hysterical, and sending them to doctors is much easier than the chore of bringing women to awakening to men while they enjoy themselves.
There is also a benefit to the diagnosis of Hysteria.
As one doctor pointed out, hysteria is an economic gift for the medical industry.
They formed a circle of patients forever.
But there is also a disadvantage.
The doctor obviously does not like to do genital massage.
Their fingers are tired and they often struggle to maintain long enough to produce results.
"To help with this exhausting task, the doctor was assisted by a massage midwife
Vibrator or "percuteurs", rocking chair, tissue oscillator, spa, muscle beating machine, up flush, vaginal electrode and pneumatic equipment.
Here's the electro-mechanical vibrator.
Design at the end of 1870s (
There are some disputes about the actual inventor)
, Vibrator is the last one in the labor forcesaving devices.
But it survived the disease that was supposed to be cured.
When the American Psychiatric Association finally removed hysteria from the mental illness list in 1952, the vibrator did not die.
Maines supports her thesis and she will be thorough, original and surprising if she is sick at times
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However, there is a serious flaw in her argument.
This is the "male-centered model ".
Contrary to this pattern, doctors often point out that male deficiency and female sexual discontent are the cause of female discomfort (
As Maines pointed out).
Many people pay attention to the climax of women.
For example, in Tudor and Stuart England, many doctors believe that "the clit is the main place for sexual pleasure" and that female orgasm is "The motivation for women to risk their lives during pregnancy"
Therefore, it seems that more than "a few medical institutions" know that they are providing sexual assistance to patients.
When she started writing the book, AdvertisementMaines said she was a "very angry feminist" who saw feminism everywhere.
She's right.
But does this mean that every Phang object and behavior is suspicious?
She's on the 13 th.
The widow and nun are advised to use the century doctor who is more than enough.
She condemned the doctors, who were "obviously comforted by the unsupported assumption that most women masturbate by some sort of approach to sexual intercourse.
In her struggle with Phalanx centralism, she refused to give in to the penis.
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A version of this review was printed on page 7007034 of the National edition on March 21, 1999 with the title: battery is not included.