Victorian Medical Vibrators

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors/569446/

The vibrator: from medical tool to revolutionary sex …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20181107-the-history-of-the-vibrator

Stretching back into the 1800s, electric vibrators were heavily marketed in magazines, periodicals, medical literature and newspapers. In one advert from around 1904, a woman sits relaxed, …

Vibrators and Clitoridectomies: How Victorian Doctors …

https://jezebel.com/vibrators-and-clitoridectomies-how-victorian-doctors-t-5914350

Granville and Baker-Brown agreed on something else: the dangers of female masturbation. It was only in the mid-19th century that medical texts began to discuss the …

Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/medical-vibrators-treatment-female-hysteria

Before physicians used medical vibrators for pelvic massage, hydrotherapy, or water therapy, was one of the first technological advancements in treating hysteria and a …

"Hysteria" and the Strange History of Vibrators

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201303/hysteria-and-the-strange-history-vibrators

Before the 20th century, many women were treated by doctors for "hysteria" (sexual frustration) using genital massage to induce orgasm. In medical journals of the …

Timeline: Female Hysteria and the Sex …

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/06/hysteria-sex-toy-history-timeline/

The new film Hysteria tells a fictionalized account of the invention of the vibrator in Victorian-era England. But just how historically accurate is it? Surprisingly close. As historian Rachel P ...

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

https://www.vintag.es/2019/09/female-hysteria.html

Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a …

How Vibrators Cured Hysteria in the …

https://cvltnation.com/vibrators-cured-hysteria-victorian-age/

Text via Victorian Era. Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women.The history of the notion of hysteria can be traced to ancient times. Galen, a …

Victorian doctors were not using vibrators …

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/victorian-doctors-were-not-using-vibrators-on-female-patients-it-was-even-stranger-than-that-221027

But just because Victorian doctors were not using vibrators to ‘cure’ hysterical women, does not mean that they were not doing some very dubious things indeed to their patients. The …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

https://vintagenewsdaily.com/female-hysteria-when-victorian-doctors-used-to-finger-their-patients/

Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a …