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From: Hera Cook <h.cook@BHAM.AC.UK>
List Editor: Hera Cook <h.cook@BHAM.AC.UK>
Editor's Subject: FW: [CRITSEX] Hysteria and Medical Masturbation
Author's Subject: FW: [CRITSEX] Hysteria and Medical Masturbation
Date Written: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:28:33 +0100
Date Posted: Sat, 26 Oct 2012 19:28:33 -0400

There is really no percentage in spending a lot of one's time pursuing negative
evidence that something wasn't so, but I have compiled a number of problems
with the concept, including links to relevant discussions on the Histsex list,
largely as regards the UK, here: http://www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm#hysteria. Not saying it never ever happened, but that it wasn't anything like as mainstream a practice as has been claimed.
    Are there lots of claims? It all seems to go back to Maines' Technology of
Orgasm (and possibly articles she published before the book came out). It has
become a popular belief that gets recirculated a lot, but I don't know that
there has been any other study of any substance.


Lesley Hall

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