It is an intimate object that often remains hidden in bedside tables. However, the vibrator would appear as a medical device long used by medical experts to treat hysterical women. Funny, exciting, a little bit scary and… an absolutely false story.
It all started in 1999 with the publication of a book by American academician Rachel Maines. Orgasm technologies has been a huge success in academia and the media, to the point of inspiring a feature film and a play. The historian defends the following thesis. Since Hippocrates, physicians have widely used vulvar massage to treat hysteria and neurasthenia by inducing “hysterical paroxysm” – what others would call an orgasm. At a time when masturbation was forbidden and sexuality was viewed exclusively through intercourse, the author argues that many women were deprived of the possibility of orgasm, and…
Source: Le Figaro
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