Hysteria - Invention of the Vibrator

by Krista
(Ontario, Canada)

The Toronto Film Festival premiered the new movie Hysteria about sexual repression and the invention of the vibrator in the 1880's.

As you can imagine, it sparked a lot of conversation.



According to Reuters...

    In "Hysteria," Dancy plays Mortimer Granville, a young doctor with modern ideas who finds himself working with London's foremost expert in women's "hysteria", a catch-all diagnosis for everything from insomnia to bloating.

    At the clinic, Granville treats this ailment with a special therapy that involves manual massage. Through this stimulation the woman could achieve a "hysterical paroxysm", what is now called an orgasm, and be temporarily cured.

    But the massage technique proves to be taxing on Granville, who develops hand cramps from his work, inspiring him to invent an electronic means of performing the stimulation.


So, what do you think? Who benefited more from the invention... the men or the women?

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