Dr. John Robert’s Electro-Massage Machine: A Sure-Fire Cure for Feminine Hysteria!
Posted by Derek C.F. Pegritz
Ladies! Do you frequently suffer from the nervous vapors? Bouts of uncontrollable feminine hysteria? Well, then, Dr. John Robert’s Patented Electro-Massive Machine (a.k.a. The Electric Manipulator) For Curing Disease At Home is all you need to return yourself to a prim, proper maternal state. Simply apply the device to your unmentionables and thrill to the soothing electrical vibrations as they send you to the heights of curative ecstacy and gracefully (if privately) eliminate all manner of hysterical emotions!
For more information please consult the book The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, by Rachel Maines, or the film which it inspired, Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm. I’m sure ladies will be impressed by the depth of study that has gone into curing their hysteria (and filming it for “educational videos” in the San Fernando Valley of California, the capitol of electro-orgasmic research) and gentlemen will be intrigued by watching the emotional balm of orgasmic therapy applied to troubled young women who have just achieved the difficult age of eighteen. Remember, it’s all for the greater good of humanity!
Technology and Orgasm on Film [The World's Fair] (Thanks, Stacey!)
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Posted at 3:16 pm on November 13, 2007
7 Comments -
Doctor John Butler would be displeased with your accreditation of his (arguable) masterwork to some unknown Robert.
Now if only Doctor John Brownlee would apply some of his own peculiar balm to the world at large…
Comment by zanbowser — November 13, 2007 @ 4:50 pm
If you’re going to be viewed in sequence with Wonkette entries on my RSS feed, you need to make sure you don’t talk about the Chief Justice of The United States’ electro-massage machine. That only leads to confusion, and worries about what Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be up to.
Comment by randal — November 13, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
Our last communique from Dr. Brownlee was dated 26 October. He had been studying, and living with, the infamous Korowai tribe of New Guinea, accompanied by his ever-present and loyal servant, Eustace. The letter conveyed much enthusiasm and vague references to strange customs observed in the huts high up in the trees.
Nothing has been heard from him since, save for a nigh indecipherable telegraph received a fortnight ago. There have been rumoured sightings of him on the German mainland, though no mention was made of his traveling companion. If this is to be believed, we expect that a report shall be forthcoming.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — November 13, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
Maines’ Technology of Orgasm really is an excellent book. Well-researched, scholarly yet hilarious and entertaining. I actually just read it for a class and spend several hours discussing it this afternoon. I look forward to regaling friends with more than they ever wanted to know about the origins of the vibrator.
Plus, there’s the fun stares you get reading it in the library…
Comment by ignotus — November 13, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
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Pingback by roblef dot com » Blog Archive » links for 2007-11-15 — November 14, 2007 @ 8:36 pm
yeah, in the 19th century, it was standard medical practice (in the UK at least) for GPs to masturbate women to orgasm in order to relieve the stresses that led to female hysteria etc.
amusingly, today that would result in them being struck off.
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