The Technology of Orgasm
Subtitle: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801866463
Subjects: Sex & sexuality; Social Science; Sociology; History; Human Sexuality; Women's Studies - General; Science / History; Electronics - General
First sentence: In 1653 Pieter van Foreest, called Alemarianus Petrus Forestus, published a medical compendium titled Observationem et Curationem Medicinalium ac Chirurgicarum Opera Omnia, with a chapter on the diseases of women.
Description: "A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as medical tool for the treatment of hysteria...A book that can delight as well as enlighten." -- Anna Meyers, Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Rachel Maines's book is full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes." -- Jeanette Winterson, Times (London).