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| 03-25-14 01:42pm - 3925 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Micha (0)
Active User Posts: 321 Registered: Jul 04, '10 Location: san jose ca |
Hysteria I just saw the movie Hysteria... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1435513/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ....about Dr. Mortimer Granville, a physician in 1880s Britain, who specialized in the treatment of female Hysteria, utilizing the manipulation of female genitalia to reduce the tensions associated with the malady. It should be notes that Dr Granville suffered from a carpal injury from administering the above mentioned massage. Nice work if you can find it. He went on to develop the Pelvicdouche which utilized a stream of water under pressure, aimed at the genitals, and later he altered an existing device, the electric feather duster to provide a high frequency vibration appliance to assuage and neutralize Hysteria tensions This device was called a percusser or more colloquially Granville's hammer. It made easy work of genital manipulation but was available only to physicians, necessitating repeated office visits by Hysteria sufferers. The use of the device fell out of favor and was made illegal. The sale of vibrators for sexual purposes remains illegal in many nations, and in the American states of Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by medical authorities as a medical disorder. Its diagnosis and treatment were routine for many hundreds of years in Western Europe. Hysteria was widely discussed in the medical literature of the 19th century. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and "a tendency to cause trouble".[1] In extreme cases the woman would be forced into the asylum and undergo surgical hysterectomy. The history of the notion of hysteria can be traced to ancient times; in ancient Greece it was described in the gynecological treatises of the Hippocratic corpus, which date from the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Plato's dialogue Timaeus compares a woman's uterus to a living creature that wanders throughout a woman’s body, "blocking passages, obstructing breathing, and causing disease." The concept of a pathological, wandering womb was later viewed as the source of the term hysteria, which stems from the Greek cognate of uterus. Another cause was thought to be the retention of female semen, thought to mingle with male semen during intercourse. This was believed to be stored in the womb. Hysteria was referred to as "the widow's disease", since the female semen was believed to turn venomous if not released through regular climax or intercourse The concept of hysteria caused by "wandering womb" continued to be taught from one generation of medical researchers to the next in Europe up until the early modern era. Medical researchers developed a better understanding of anatomy after the invention of microscopes in the 17th century and cellular research in the 19th century. Sigmund Freud's theory of the free-floating unconscious, the "mind within the mind", was similar to the ancient belief in the "animal within the animal". Both "wandering womb" and "hysteria" are unused in medical theories of today. unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. | |
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| 03-25-14 01:47pm - 3925 days | #2 | |
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Micha (0)
Active User Posts: 321 Registered: Jul 04, '10 Location: san jose ca |
I wonder how many citizens presently populate prisons in those states, serving terms for vibrator violations unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. | |
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| 03-25-14 06:12pm - 3925 days | #3 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Ah yes, female "hysteria."  Considering all the other bullshit miracle cures and snake oil remedies people were hawking around the same time female hysteria treatments sound relatively safe. And compared to the cocaine-laced sodas and radium-laced water and toothpastes of the time it practically does sound like medicine. I'd even go so far as to say there are plenty of women today who could still benefit from "massaging" their hysterics away, at least if we could get over our puerile fear of discussing female sexuality. How something as innocent as acknowledging the female orgasm became so taboo is beyond me, but we Americans are a strange and paranoid people.  But now instead of hysterics and patent medicines we have a growing industry of bullshit and woo to relieve the more gullible of us our money and common sense: vitamin and "smart" waters, unproven herbal supplements, gluten-free junk food, "superfoods," and of course the cult of everything organic and "natural." There's a cure for whatever ails your disposable income! And to the charlatans that naively ask "But what's the harm? I'm just trying to help people live better lives." I say then stop turning everything you do into a goddamn marketing scheme with a book or some other product attached for "the solution." Stop taking people's money while making wild, unscientific claims about what they're buying.
See my  above, but I think the web has made these prudish laws obsolete as a lot of sites sell their toys as "novelty devices" only and ship to all 50 states. Even Walmart, yes that Walmart, sells the Hitachi Magic Wand for those who wish "to soothe an aching shoulder or want a more 'personal' massage experience"--talk about living better! Again, some relaxation and masturbation would be good for everybody.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-25-14 08:44pm - 3924 days | #4 | |
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YankeeBastard (0)
Active User Posts: 5 Registered: Mar 12, '14 Location: NY |
When I visited Boston I went in an adult shop and they had a wall full of vibrators... Don't you dare tread on me | |
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| 03-26-14 03:12pm - 3924 days | #5 | |
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Reveen (0)
Active User Posts: 96 Registered: Apr 06, '09 |
You should have informed the nearest building code inspector about this flagrant structural defect immediately  | |
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| 03-26-14 06:27pm - 3924 days | #6 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Female hysteria? Sounds like a good thing in the bedroom, not so much elsewhere. Also sounds like the good doctor in the movie came up with a clever way to get his paws on some hoochie.  I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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