The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (37 page)

vaginismus,
59

Vance, Carole,
115
–16

Van Foreest, Pieter.
See
Forestus

Veith, Ilsa,
22
,
171

vibratodes,
19
,
94
–95,
98
,
100
,
104
,
107
–8

vibrator

attitudes toward,
58
,
108
–10,
113

invention of,
11
,
93
,
114

models: battery-powered,
11
,
17
,
94
,
97

electromechanical,
11
,
15
,
49
,
67
,
93
–100,
102
–10

foot-powered,
15
,
91
–93,
96

hand-powered,
101

pneumatic,
93

steam-powered,
11
,
14
–15,
93

water-powered,
11
,
17
,
68
,
93
,
100
–102

Vigouroux, Auguste,
94

violet ray devices,
88
–89,
104
,
108

Wade, Carole,
49

Wallian, Samuel Spencer,
67
,
95
,
97

Wappler Electric Co.,
95

Ward, Patricia Spain,
173

Warner, Jeanne,
63
,
65
,
116

Weber, A. Sigismond,
70

Weir Mitchell, Silas,
44
,
71
–72

Weiss (instrument manufacturer),
15
,
94

Wesley, George,
171

White Cross vibrator,
105
–8

widows,
27
,
33
,
58
,
108

Wolfe, Linda,
80

Woman’s Home Companion
(magazine),
102
–3,
173

Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
107

Wood, Ann,
38

Workbasket
(magazine),
108

Zacuto, Abraham,
2
,
12
,
28
,
53

Zander, Gustav,
14
–15,
93

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 The Job Nobody Wanted

The Androcentric Model of Sexuality

Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm

The Evolution of the Technology

2 Female Sexuality as Hysterical Pathology

Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

The Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath

3 “My God, What Does She Want?”

Physicians and the Female Orgasm

Masturbation

“Frigidity” and Anorgasmia

Female Orgasm in the Post-Freudian World

What Ought to Be, and What We’d Like to Believe

4 “Inviting the Juices Downward”

Hydropathy and Hydrotherapy

Electrotherapeutics

Mechanical Massagers and Vibrators

Instrumental Prestige in the Vibratory Operating Room

Consumer Purchase of Vibrators after 1900

5 Revising the Androcentric Model

Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine

The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships

The Vibrator as Technology and Totem

Notes

Note on Sources

Index