DYK doctors began stroking the clitoris to relieve #hysteria w/orgasm when #Hippocrates taught that a #WanderingWomb caused it? Docs did it for 1,000s of years. One in the 19thC invented the vibrator to spare his fingers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

DYK doctors stroked the #clitoris to relieve #hysteria w/#orgasm for 1000s years? #Hippocrates believed it cured a #WanderingWomb. 16thC #AmbroiseParé advocated it. A 19thC doc invented the #vibrator to spare his fingers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

“The womb can’t wander, if it is full of baby”

#misogyny #WanderingWomb #MedicalNonsense
#LizzyBorden #literature
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A picture of Virginia Woolf, who walked into a stream with rocks in her pockets after dealing with chronic depression and other woes faced by white women authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Last night, I dreamed I got into a knock-down-drag-out with my mother, who happened to be the size of Tinkerbell, and then, in a separate dream, I had a screaming fight with my husband. This is just another telltale sign of my encroaching middle-age madness. #wanderingwomb