The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (34 page)

Cayleff, Susan,
173

Celsus,
1
,
23

chairs

jolting,
91
–92

rocking,
8
,
12
,
91

vibrating,
107

Charcot, Jean-Martin,
22
–23,
35
,
43
–44,
91

Chattanooga Vibrator.
See
vibrator models, electromechanical

childbirth.
See
pregnancy and childbirth

chlorosis,
3
,
32
,
34
–35,
38
,
45
,
68

Claudini, Giulio Cesare,
2
,
28

clitoris,
5
,
9
–10,
30
,
33
,
36
–37,
46
,
48
–50,
53
,
55
,
62
,
66
,
81
,
112
,
115
–18

Cobbe, Francis Power,
72

Coffignon, A.,
57

coitus

female orgasm during,
6
,
33
,
50
,
63

general,
42
,
44
,
54

ineffectiveness for producing female orgasm,
3
,
7
,
23
,
59
–66,
115
–17

interruptus,
54

as “real” sex,
xiii
,
5
,
50
,
55
,
63
,
112
,
115
–16

as therapy for hysteria,
25
,
27
,
29

unsatisfactory, as cause of disease,
36
,
40
,
43
–45,
53
,
56
,
59
,
79

Columbian Exposition,
86

conception.
See
pregnancy and childbirth

concussor,
91

congestion, pelvic,
8
,
23
,
32
,
38
,
48
,
51
,
53
–54,
56
,
74
,
79
,
93
,
114

constipation,
94
,
107

contraception,
54
,
101

contractions,
24
,
33
,
48
,
53
,
63
,
82
,
84
–85,
99

Cooke, N.,
56
–57

Cooper, James,
63

Corbin Vacuo-Masseur.
See
vibrator models, water-powered

corsets,
57
,
82
,
103

Covey, Alfred,
95

cramps, menstrual.
See
dysmenorrhea

Cullen, William,
2
,
33
,
53

Culpeper, Nicholas,
27

Culverwell, R. J.,
36

Davis, Audrey,
82

Davis, Katherine Bement,
63

Debay, Auguste,
117

Degler, Carl,
60
,
65

D’Emilio and Freedman,
61
,
172

Dengrove, Edward,
109

Dickinson and Pierson,
63

Dieffenbach, William H.,
41
,
79

diet,
77
,
79
,
87

dildos,
58
–59,
121
–22

douche

electric,
83

hydrotherapeutic,
13
,
36
–37,
41
,
73
–76,
78
–81

Dowse, Thomas Stretch,
35

Duck, J. J. See J. J. Duck Company

dysmenorrhea,
37
,
57
,
83

Eccles, Audrey,
27
,
171

edema.
See
congestion; engorgement

Ehrenreich, Barbara,
45
–46

ejaculation. See orgasm, male

electrets,
82

electrification of home,
100

electrotherapy,
12
,
14
,
40
,
44
,
57
,
74
,
77
,
82
–89,
104

Ellis, Albert,
109

Ellis, Havelock,
44
,
56
,
61
,
84
,
171

English Deirdre,
45
–56

engorgement,
32
–33,
51
,
53
–54

equitation. See horseback riding

fainting. See syncope

Fehling, Hermann,
61

Ferrari da Gradi, Giovanni Matteo,
i
,
2
,
26

Figlio, Karl,
111

film, vibrators in,
10
,
20
,
108
,
121

Fisher, Seymour,
116

Flaubert, Gustave,
60
,
129
n

Fonteyn, Nicolaas,
29

Foote, Edward Bliss,
54

Forestus (Pieter Van Foreest),
1
,
9
,
12
,
37

Foucault, Michel,
7
,
43
,
45
–46,
111
,
172

Francoeur, Robert,
118

Freud, Sigmund

definitions of hysteria,
8
–9,
23
,
44

training at the Salpêtrière,
42
–45,
75

views on female sexuality,
59
,
80
–81,
112

“frigidity,”
5
,
9
,
59
,
61
–62,
81
,
83
,
117
,
128
n,
131
n

Galen,
1
,
8
,
24
,
37
,
47
,
52
,
68
–69,
112

Gall, Franz Josef,
2
,
8
,
34
,
53

gambling, at spas,
72
,
77
,
151
n

Gay, Peter,
9
,
45
–47,
65
,
111
,
172

Gebhard, Paul,
63

Giles of Rome,
52

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
71

Girdner, John,
86

Goodell, William,
40

Gorman, Sam,
98

Gottschalk, Franklin,
95

Gradus.
See
Ferrari da Gradi

Graham, Douglas,
35

Greydanus, Donald,
80
,
172

Griesinger, Wilhelm,
37

Grmek, Mirko,
51
,
111

Grosskopf, Dianne,
64

Guainerio, Antonio,
25

Gully, James Manby,
36
,
79

Haller, John S. and Robin,
89
–90,
111
,
172

Halpert, Eugene,
80
–81

Hammond, William,
60

Hare, E. H.,
172

Hartelius, Charles E.,
91

Harvey, William,
2
,
31

Hayes, Albert,
38

health, impairment of

by masturbation,
5
,
35
–37,
54
–55,
57
–59,
79
,
82

by sexual deprivation,
24
–33,
35
,
41
,
43
–44,
56