Woman masturbation hystories

Skip navigation. During the late s through the early s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators as treatments for what was called female hysteria. Until the early s, physicians used female hysteria as a diagnosis for women who reported a wide range of complaints and symptoms unexplainable by any other diagnosis at the time. According to historian Rachel Maines, physicians provided pelvic massages for thousands of years to female patients without it being considered erotic or sexually stimulating. After the Western Industrial Revolution, physicians began using electric machines in medicine, including the medical vibrator, which researchers theorize was used to more efficiently bring women to a hysterical paroxysm, the former medical term for a female orgasm. Until the s, physicians used vibrating massagers as medical devices for treating hysteria at a time when doctors diagnosed women with hysteria as a sweeping diagnosis.

Doctors in the 19th century viewed female masturbation as an abnormal practice that could cause insanity or even kill. Not surprisingly, remedies could be extreme. Words by Dr Kate Lister 27 February Spencer Wells -type obstetrics clamp, Paris, France, c. Used for ovariotomies, a procedure used controversially not only for cysts and tumours but also for hysteria. Large clitorises have been thought to be analogous to mini-penises, and therefore responsible for lesbianism and abnormal sexual appetites in women since ancient times.

Contrary to popular belief, the most serious gender inequality in this country is not played out in office buildings, kitchens or even final clubs of prestigious New England universities. The most serious gender inequality happens under the covers, and I mean bedcovers, and I mean your bedcovers—even, and especially, those of you spending the cold and lonely nights alone. Consider this memorable moment in middle school history.

Skip navigation! Story from Dedicated Feature. Eliza Dumais. But in the midst of a global pandemic, while quarantine is simply a mandated way of life, most of us are nothing if not restless and horny. Orgasm — self-induced or otherwise — releases a whole flood of beneficial chemicals in the body.