Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Ukraine Special: Putin's Russia launches full-scale invasion" video.
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@chlomyster8526 I hope this bit of history gives you a laugh, to lighten your mood.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORST WAYS TO CURE EVERYTHING ... authors ... Lydia Kang MD and Nate Pedersen.
QUACKERY
The epidemic reached such epic levels during the second half of the nineteenth century that Dr. Russell Trall, a hydrotherapist, made the bold declaration that 75 percent of women in the United States suffered from hysteria. The cure? A "pelvic massage" of enough vigor to eventually induce a "hysterical paroxysm." The Victorians were masters at the pseudonym. Indeed, according to some historians, women were prescribed genital massages--conducted by their male doctors (!)--to induce orgasm.
Now, you'd think that this might be part of some sort of large-scale mass delusion with a Freudian wet dream of sexual undertones. But here's the kicker: Physicians didn't think there was anything sexual about their "pelvic massages." In fact, they were kind of annoyed at having to do them at all. Doctors complained that the correct technique was time consuming to learn and was time consuming to boot. Some exhausted physicians reported a pelvic massage took about an hour to successfully perform and led to cases of "wrist-ache."
Lest we pity our poor Victoriian doctors, laboriously massaging the genitals of their female patients, an important invention was about to come to their rescue: the electromechanical vibrator.
This device was no joke. Weighing in at forty pounds, it was powered by a wet cell battery and came with an assortment of little add-ons called "vibratodes." Invented by Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville in the late nineteenth century, the vibrators were a hit with doctors because they reduced the time needed to obtain orgasm from an hour to about five minutes.
Little did the physicians know, however, that they were cutting themselves out of the picture. As soon as vibrators became even remotely portable, a burgeoning kitchen industry in the manufacture and sale of household vibrators sprang onto a fertile market. Soon, the modern woman of the early twentieth century could order a personal vibrator for a few dollars from the Sears catalog. It certainly beat paying your doctor to get you off, and it wasn't long before physicians stopped offering pelvic massages..
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@luciassaint683 I hope this bit of history gives you a laugh, to lighten your mood.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORST WAYS TO CURE EVERYTHING ... authors ... Lydia Kang MD and Nate Pedersen.
QUACKERY
The epidemic reached such epic levels during the second half of the nineteenth century that Dr. Russell Trall, a hydrotherapist, made the bold declaration that 75 percent of women in the United States suffered from hysteria. The cure? A "pelvic massage" of enough vigor to eventually induce a "hysterical paroxysm." The Victorians were masters at the pseudonym. Indeed, according to some historians, women were prescribed genital massages--conducted by their male doctors (!)--to induce orgasm.
Now, you'd think that this might be part of some sort of large-scale mass delusion with a Freudian wet dream of sexual undertones. But here's the kicker: Physicians didn't think there was anything sexual about their "pelvic massages." In fact, they were kind of annoyed at having to do them at all. Doctors complained that the correct technique was time consuming to learn and was time consuming to boot. Some exhausted physicians reported a pelvic massage took about an hour to successfully perform and led to cases of "wrist-ache."
Lest we pity our poor Victoriian doctors, laboriously massaging the genitals of their female patients, an important invention was about to come to their rescue: the electromechanical vibrator.
This device was no joke. Weighing in at forty pounds, it was powered by a wet cell battery and came with an assortment of little add-ons called "vibratodes." Invented by Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville in the late nineteenth century, the vibrators were a hit with doctors because they reduced the time needed to obtain orgasm from an hour to about five minutes.
Little did the physicians know, however, that they were cutting themselves out of the picture. As soon as vibrators became even remotely portable, a burgeoning kitchen industry in the manufacture and sale of household vibrators sprang onto a fertile market. Soon, the modern woman of the early twentieth century could order a personal vibrator for a few dollars from the Sears catalog. It certainly beat paying your doctor to get you off, and it wasn't long before physicians stopped offering pelvic massages..
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