Eh. You can get a vibratoring back massager from the home goods section in Walmart for $6.

That said all that serotonin is gonna make it HELLA hard to orgasm.

Win-win. Tasty dinner or unraveling your childhood. Or slow, agonising death, of course.

I've just started on my cology journey

We don’t?

I thought we did

you uh.. . .

you looking to change that?

What would be the better word?

Gotta live sometime.

who hasnt

Oh who does this now? Do they do home visits?

And that's why you're not 1889.

Even stranger that the title says "women".

Me at the sex shop checkout:

"I... I have a prescription."

And bicycles were discouraged, because they could promote hysteria.

That's likely a myth.

Same thing as chainsaws. Go ahead, Google why the chainsaw was invented

A film called "Hysteria" from 2011 covers that. Although apparently not historically accurate.

Well yeah. These women were suffering from extreme bouts of hysteria.

Thought it was a facial massaging device... until "facial" became optional.

I wonder how many of my health issues are because of injuries being left untreated (professionally).

like I tore my leg open on gravel last summer, nice big patch completely gone down below the hair follicles. just cleaned it out when I got home a couple hours later and kept flushing it multiple times a day and putting antibiotic cream on it, for a few weeks until it eventually healed over. took forever because of how deep and large it was, also I guess I'm just older and heal slower now. it definitely was at least a little bit infected for the week or two. it healed itself though

but, like, I've done that all my life. how fucked up is my body because of that. good thing was I got my overdue tetnis shot a few months earlier when I did go to emerge for something else that wouldn't stop bleeding

They're exactly looking to be treated for hysteria.

While the word know just means frantic and sort of crazed and can be applied to anyone, it's originally about having a womb. From the greek word for a womb.

You're obviously right that them getting sent to an asylum or getting their brain poked through their eye (although lobotomy wouldn't be invented for like 30-40 years from their date) would be horrible.

But she's also right that they did indeed used to "jerk off" female patients as a treatment for hysteria. Then the doctors got lazy about rubbing and fingering women until climax, so they invented the vibrator. I may be taking a few liberties with the story so Google it yourself to verify the historicity.