The Technology of Orgasm: ''Hysteria,''
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Maines, Rachel P
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Fiction
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2001
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JHU Press
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English
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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. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries rel