In 1999 the historian Rachel P. Maines wrote a brave book about the female orgasm that cost him his position at the university. In fact, it was not bad. Only relative, covered in plenty of scientific documentation, the way the medical community for centuries denied the importance of the clitoris in women's sexuality and the role that in this scientific fraud played a confusing disease that still known by the name of hysteria.
The book in question, with which Maines left academia to join in the history of feminist essay and eleven years after its publication just seen the light in Castilian in the editorial milrazones is "The technology of orgasm. The hysteria, vibrators and sexual satisfaction of women" , a journey through the genealogy of the vibrator and her troubled relationship with the androcentric model of sexuality.
According to the records of history medical, the first vibrating machines appeared in the medical cabinets in the second half of the nineteenth century to treat women with nerve problems, apathy, anorexia, frigidity and an extensive collection of diseases included under the dark umbrella of hysteria. Some texts from the Renaissance and included indications that the "rhythmic massage in the vulvar area" alleviate the psychological distress of many women, but medical specialists were reluctant to apply, arguing that, in addition to "tedious and difficult to learn," requiring them "too time. " For centuries, nobody wanted the job , as Maines calls, went midwives in which, by virtue of his menial tasks were attributed to their male superiors had no time or desire to perform.
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