The Job Nobody Wanted -- The Androcentric Model of Sexuality -- Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm -- The Evolution of the Technology -- Female Sexuality as Hysterical Pathology -- Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath -- My God, What Does She Want? -- Physicians and the Female Orgasm -- Masturbation -- Frigidity and Anorgasmia -- Female Orgasm in the Post-Freudian World -- What Ought to Be, and What We'd Like to Believe -- Inviting the Juices Downward -- Hydropathy and Hydrotherapy -- Electrotherapeutics -- Mechanical Massagers and Vibrators -- Instrumental Prestige in the Vibratory Operating Room -- Consumer Purchase of Vibrators after 1900 -- Revising the Androcentric Model -- Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine -- The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships -- The Vibrator as Technology and Totem.
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