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(This is completely untrue, by the way) --the account was based on a poorly-researched, semi-fictional non-fiction book about the history of women's health which was, otherwise quite decent. I can't remember the author's name, but the account of "physicians stimulating hysterical women" doesn't turn up in medical history, and was later shown to be a false account. She walked this back with "Well, I took some liberties to tell a story and didn't expect everything to be taken as fact." Or something like that....

Anyway, this account became one of those things that was "bizarrely true enough" to grab popular attention and is now widely accepted as truth. Like anti-vaccine nonsense, you just need to convince enough humans about something that they want to believe, and no retraction will change their minds after they have tuned their brains to "what is true." There was even a recent movie made about it. ...but this never happened. 😀

...It's like Marco Polo. That guy ever existed!
 
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zinfamous said:
(This is completely untrue, by the way) --the account was based on a poorly-researched, semi-fictional non-fiction book about the history of women's health which was, otherwise quite decent. I can't remember the author's name, but the account of "physicians stimulating hysterical women" doesn't turn up in medical history, and was later shown to be a false account. She walked this back with "Well, I took some liberties to tell a story and didn't expect everything to be taken as fact." Or something like that....

Anyway, this account became one of those things that was "bizarrely true enough" to grab popular attention and is now widely accepted as truth. Like anti-vaccine nonsense, you just need to convince enough humans about something that they want to believe, and no retraction will change their minds after they have tuned their brains to "what is true." There was even a recent movie made about it. ...but this never happened. 😀

...It's like Marco Polo. That guy ever existed!
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The History of Hysteria | Office for Science and Society - McGill University

If marriage wasn’t an acceptable or possible treatment however, there was another technique of treatment for hysteria, prolapsed uteri and any gynecologicals problem really, rising in popularity in the late 17th century- uterine massage.

Yes, uterine or gynecologicals massage was exactly what you think it was.

Invented by a Swedish Army Major named Thure Brandte, and though initially used to treat conditions in soldiers like prolapsed anuses, uterine massage quickly became the norm for treating everything in women from tilted uteri to nymphomania. Brandte opened several clinics, all of which were remarkably successful. He employed 5 med students, 10 female physical therapists, and had doctors from across the globe apprenticing at his clinics, which were known to treat as many as 117 patients in 1 day. Most recommended techniques were bimanual, meaning 1 hand was placed outside the body on the abdomen, and the other inserted into either the vagina or anus to perform massage, until a ‘paroxysmal convulsion’ (we now call these orgasms) was achieved. These sessions were considered ‘long and physically exhausting’ for doctors, for obvious reasons. This problem led to the creation of stimulation devices- namely, vibrators. (You can see some early vibrators by clicking here)
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