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Technology of Orgasm
When female patients suffered "hysterical" or
"neurasthenic" symptoms,Doctors saw wonderful
results from"pelvic massage,"culminating in orgasm.
The patient was pleased enough to guarantee
her habitual patronage.
You may not get a great amount of pleasure from G-spot stimulation or even be able to find it at all. Different women get off on different things so it may well be that this isn't a particularly sensitive area for you (well, no more than the rest of your vagina) Conversely, you could have a mind-blowing orgasm. Be prepared, G-spot stimulation can lead to female ejaculation in some women so don't get freaked out if there's a squirt of fluid when you come. It's not urine. The fluid is similar to the male ejaculate from prostate fluids. And remember, when aroused to near orgasm, it is physically impossible to urinate, because the urinary tract is completely blocked. IF you have the feeling as though you want to urinate, RELEASE that, DON'T hold back. THAT is the beginning of the greatest orgasm you will ever experience. That is what the Orientals call the Great Typhoon, the ultimate orgasm, and yes, you will ejaculate fluids similar to the male ejaculation. When (if) you reach that point, let it out, think of yourself and nothing else, take that moment of pleasure. If you flood your partner, that is his problem, and if he is attuned to you, he will encourage you to go all the way, and enjoy that feeling with and for you. Too many women who have never had this explained to them sequester that moment because it does feel as though you want to urinate, and they stop.
The Technology of Orgasm and the Vibrator
By NATALIE ANGIER
The New York Times
Electricity has given so much comfort to womankind, such
surcease to her life of drudgery. It gave her the vacuum
cleaner, the pop-up toaster and the automatic ice dispenser.
And perhaps above all, it gave her the vibrator. In the
annals of Victorian medicine, a time of "Goetze's device for
producing dimples" and "Merrell's strengthening cordial,
liver invigorator and purifier of the blood," the debut of
the electromechanical vibrator in the early 1880's was one
medical event that truly worked wonders -- safely, reliably,
repeatedly.
As historian Rachel Maines describes in her exhaustively
researched if decidedly offbeat work, "The Technology of
Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual
Satisfaction" (Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), the vibrator was
developed to perfect and automate a function that doctors
had long performed for their female patients: the relief of
physical, emotional and sexual tension through external
pelvic massage, culminating in orgasm. For doctors, the
routine had usually been tedious, with about as much erotic
content as a Kenneth Starr document. "Most of them did it
because they felt it was their duty," Dr. Maines said in an
interview. "It wasn't sexual at all."
The vibrator, she argues, made that job easy, quick and
clean. With a vibrator in the office, a doctor could
complete in seconds or minutes what had taken up to an hour
through manual means. With a vibrator, a female patient
suffering from any number of symptoms labeled "hysterical"
or "neurasthenic" could be given relief -- or at least be
pleased enough to guarantee her habitual patronage.
"I'm sure the women felt much better afterwards, slept
better, smiled more," said Dr. Maines. Besides, she added,
hysteria, as it was traditionally defined, was an incurable,
chronic disease. "The patient had to go to the doctor
regularly," Dr. Maines said. "She didn't die. She was a cash
cow."
Nowadays, it is hard to fathom doctors giving their
patients what Dr. Maines calls regular "vulvular" massage,
either manually or electromechanically. But the 1899 edition
of the Merck Manual, a reference guide for physicians, lists
massage as a treatment for hysteria (as well as sulfuric
acid for nymphomania). And in a 1903 commentary on
treatments for hysterical patients, Dr. Samuel Howard Monell
wrote that "pelvic massage (in gynecology) has its brilliant
advocates and they report wonderful results."
But he noted that many doctors had difficulty treating
patients "with their own fingers," and hailed the vibrator
as a godsend: "Special applicators (motor driven) give
practical value and office convenience to what otherwise is
impractical."
Small wonder that by the turn of the 20th century, about
20 years after Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville patented the
first electromechanical vibrator, there were at least two
dozen models available to the medical profession. There were
musical vibrators, counterweighted vibrators, vibratory
forks, undulating wire coils called vibratiles, vibrators
that hung from the ceiling, vibrators attached to tables,
floor models on rollers and portable devices that fit in the
palm of the hand.
A text from 1883 called "Health For Women" recommended the
new vibrators for treating "pelvic hyperemia," or congestion
of the genitalia. Vibrators were also marketed directly to
women, as home appliances. In fact, the vibrator was only
the fifth household device to be electrified, after the
sewing machine, fan, tea kettle and toaster, and preceding
by about a decade the vacuum cleaner and electric iron --
perhaps, Dr. Maines suggests, "reflecting consumer
priorities."
Advertised in such respectable periodicals as Needlecraft,
Woman's Home Companion, Modern Priscilla and the Sears,
Roebuck catalog, vibrators were pitched as "aids that every
woman appreciates," with the delicious promise that "all the
pleasures of youth ... will throb within you."
Significantly, the vibrators and their accoutrements almost
never took the form of the dildo, for the simple reason that
vibrators were meant to be used externally. As a result,
medically indicated massage therapy could be pitched as
upstanding and asexual -- and less risque than the
gynecologist's speculum, which came under heavy ethical fire
when it was first introduced in the late 19th century.
Dr. Maines's investigations led her to conclude that
doctors became the keepers of the female orgasm for several
related reasons. To begin with, women have been presumed
since Hippocrates' day, if not earlier, to suffer from some
sort of "womb furie" -- the word "hysteria," after all,
derives from uterus. The result was thought to be a
spectacular assortment of symptoms, including lassitude,
irritability, depression, confusion, palpitations of the
heart, headaches, forgetfulness, insomnia, muscle spasms,
stomach upsets, writing cramps, ticklishness and weepiness.
Who better to treat the wayward female than a physician, and
where better to address his ministrations than toward the
general area of her rebellious female parts?
Dr. Maines also proposes that women historically have
suffered from a lack of sexual satisfaction -- that they
needed somebody's help to have the orgasms they were not
having in the bedroom. By the tenets of what she calls the
"androcentric" model of sex, women were supposed to be
satisfied by the motions of heterosexual intercourse -- the
missionary position and its close proxies.
Yet as many studies have shown, at least two-thirds of women
fail to reach orgasm through coitus alone, Dr. Maines said.
As a result, she said, many women historically may have
spent their lives in an orgasm deficit, without necessarily
identifying it as such. At the same time, religious edicts
against masturbation discouraged women from
self-exploration. "In effect," she writes, "doctors
inherited the task of producing orgasm in women because it
was a job nobody else wanted."
Vibrators are still widely available, of course -- unless
you happen to live in Alabama, Georgia and Texas, where
state legislatures have banned the sale of vibrators and
other "sex toys." The American Civil Liberties Union is now
vigorously challenging the Alabama statute. If Alabama
permits the prescribing of the anti-impotence drug Viagra,
the ACLU argues, how dare it tell women that they can't have
their own electromechanical prescription for joy?
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