Is it true that victorian doctors stimulated women to get an org asm to cure them of hysteria?

Answer 1

yes this is true. this is where the first "female massagers" came from. the doctors would often just put it up the patients long skirt and turn their head since it was considered innapropriate to look at their privates. this is cutting edge science during this period (1800s-early 1900s)

Answer 2

actually in Victorian times sexual pleasure passion and excitement were looked at as very bad and masturbation was considered self abuse and boys and girls and men and women were circumcised to prevent it.

Covering the organs with a cage has been practiced with entire success. A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anæsthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed. If any attempt is made to watch the child, he should be so carefully surrounded by vigilance that he cannot possibly transgress without detection. If he is only partially watched, he soon learns to elude observation, and thus the effect is only to make him cunning in his vice. (p 295)

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice in those whose will-power has become so weakened that the patient is unable to exercise entire self-control. (p 297)

Answer 3

It was worse than that. Hysteria comes from the same root as the word "hysterectomy" and literally meant "wandering womb". It was thought in Victorian times that women's problems were caused by the reproductive organs. To "cure" these women a hysterectomy was often performed. Because of Victorian morality I would doubt whether women were stimulated to orgasm, in fact most Victorian men, including the doctors, didn't know how to do it anyway.

Answer 4

Are you referring to the Victorian era, or the state of Victoria in Australia.??
I don't think that present day medical practioners would risk their profession to cure hysteria in this fashion.

Answer 5

I'm almost sure I have heard that somewhere too. It was on tv not so long ago....Hasnt the NHS changed rathera lot!

Answer 6

Not the doctors - the trained nurses.

Answer 7

The mind boggles!

Answer 8

yep the NHS has sure gone to the dogs hasnt it lol