"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm").
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
When you do all your research by watching the movie. In this case, "Hysteria" (2011)
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
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@kims Sorry to be a spoilsport: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors/569446/
@JankaWessman
I mean, even if it's a myth, I'm stuck on the mechanics. If the doctors' wrists are overworked, I'd guess it's from what they do *after* they provide women with an orgasmWhoever created this urban legend needs an anatomy lesson
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@JankaWessman
I mean, even if it's a myth, I'm stuck on the mechanics. If the doctors' wrists are overworked, I'd guess it's from what they do *after* they provide women with an orgasmWhoever created this urban legend needs an anatomy lesson
@kims @JankaWessman That would be [Rachel Maines](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_P._Maines). Maybe it’s a “different strokes for different folks” kind of thing.
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"Vibrators were introduced to the American public as medical devices, a "treatment" for the vaguely defined female trouble known as hysteria, whose symptoms only seemed to subside after the inducement of orgasm (then known as a "paroxysm"). Initially invented as a way to provide relief to doctors and their overworked wrists, by the 1900s, vibrators had become common household items, a wellness device deemed so innocuous they were even advertised in the Sears catalog."
Overworked *wrists*? Uh...
@kims Where did you find this? It's wrong in about three ways I can spot.
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@kims Where did you find this? It's wrong in about three ways I can spot.
@onekind
Old article from The Verge but it's been written about in lots of placeshttps://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11313512/new-jimmyjane-livesexy-intro-2-6-vibrators-ceo-interview
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@onekind
Old article from The Verge but it's been written about in lots of placeshttps://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11313512/new-jimmyjane-livesexy-intro-2-6-vibrators-ceo-interview
@kims Oh it's Lux, ok. She might have had to compress that bit to make word count. I'm a queer enby working in sexual and reproductive health and I've done an unhealthy amount of reading on hysteria and how it was treated, due to the incredible rage I feel about the neglect of endo and PCOS. Yeah, paroxysm via internal massage was a thing, but bed rest, quack treatments like bromide salts, and even surgery were common. People read Maines and think vibrators were primarily clinical tools but right from the get-go that was marketing intended to provide socially respectable cover for their actual uses.
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