Self Help Topics

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Truer words have rarely been spoken! Masturbation is indeed the gateway to understanding your body and its responses. Practice, practice, practice!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="02b64640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="8">The first African-American and the second woman to serve as Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Elders was censured for her outspoken views throughout her abbreviated tenure (September 1993-December 1994). However, it wasn't her commitment to providing sex and contraceptive information to the nation's youth, her advocacy of legalizing RU-486, her being labeled the "condom queen" or even her willingness to consider legalizing drugs that got her fired. No, Dr. Elders lost her job when she acknowledged that "masturbation is part of human sexuality and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught" as part of sex education in the schools. Responding to questions at the 1994 World AIDS Days conference, Dr. Elders noted "We've not even taught our children the very basics. And I feel that we have tried ignorance for a very long time and it's time we try education." For suggesting that sex education is preferable to ignorance, Dr. Elders was pilloried by conservative politicians and was deserted by her former sponsor Bill Clinton, earning her a permanent spot in our Hall of Fame.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> A brief history on self help </div> <div> and appliances sold under pretext of Massagers.</div> <bR> <div> Physicians employed vibrating devices in the treatment of "hysteria," which they viewed as the most common health complaint among women of the day. Hysteria <IMG SRC="02cca980.jpg" border=0 width="202" height="152" ALT=""Elizabeth Arden Electric Patter", circa 1930 " ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="8">was a medical term developed to describe a woman's display of mental or emotional distress, behavior then considered a disease in need of treatment. Though the existence of hysteria as a disease was debunked by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952, medical experts from the time of Hippocrates up to the 20th century believed that hysteria expressed the womb's revolt against sexual deprivation. Genital massage was a standard treatment for hysteria; its objective was to induce "hysterical paroxysm" (better known as orgasm) in the patient. Such treatment demanded both manual dexterity and a fair amount of time, so turn-of-the-century physicians were delighted with the <IMG SRC="02d9eb90.jpg" border=0 width="158" height="185" ALT=""Regal Vibrator", Model 4400, Herold Manufacturing Co., circa 1930 " ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="8">efficiency, convenience and reliability of portable vibrators. In light of hysteria's historical legacy, we can see that classifying hysteria as a disease was a refusal to acknowledge female sexuality as a human trait on par with male sexual functioning, as well as a refusal to recognize orgasm as a normal function of female sexuality.</div> <bR> <div> The vibrator was later marketed as a home appliance in women's magazines and mail order catalogs. Ads proffering "health, vigor and beauty" promoted the vibrator as a health aid. By the 1920's, doctors had abandoned hands-on physical <IMG SRC="02ef6b90.jpg" border=0 width="246" height="185" ALT=""Miracle Ball Grip Massager", Miracle Electric Co., circa 1950 " ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="8">treatments for hysteria in favor of psychotherapeutic techniques. But vibrators continued to have an active commercial life in which they were marketed (much like snake oil) as cure-alls for ills ranging from headaches and asthma to "fading beauty" and even tuberculosis!</div> <div> The ad copy for these vibrators was coy and ambiguous. "Be a glow getter," one package insert suggests. And who wouldn't be tempted to experience "that delicious, thrilling health-restoring sensation called vibration," when assured that "it makes you fairly tingle with the joy of living"? The vibrator's usefulness for <IMG SRC="02fca980.jpg" border=0 width="202" height="152" ALT=""Vanguard", circa 1962 " ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="8">masturbation was never acknowledged; however, as vibrators began appearing in stag films of the 1920's, it became difficult to ignore their sexual function. Probably as a result, advertisements for vibrators gradually disappeared from respectable publications.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>