SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 part 2/2: Anxiety, Paroxysmal Attack, Vaginal Lubrication
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Forestus suggests that in the western medical tradition genital message to orgasm by a physician or midwife was a standard treatment for hysteria, an ailment considered common and chronic in women. (pg 1) During these times, physicians were mainly all men and treating. Hysteria via this rapid therapy meant they could treat more patients resulting in an increased income. The demand for treatment (2): (1) the proscription on female masturbation as unchaste and possibly unhealthful (2) the failure of androcentrically defined sexuality to produce orgasm regularly in most women. Female orgasm under clinical conditions were considered the crisis of an illness, the hysterical paroxysm . Physicians producing orgasms from woman was a job nobody. The physicians (as well as husbands) saw diving women orgasms else wanted as a routine chore . Clitoridectomy was a thing to prevent masturbation. Steps for this activity to be considered the real thing .
