by mike thomsen, the new inquiry

1) male doctors, even as they pathologized female arousal & orgasm, were the unspoken sex workers of the 18th and 19th centuries

2) lessons in: performing hysteria to get what you want

3) female orgasm is the answer to virilio, taussig, and berardi on speed:

Masturbation was the prescribed treatment for hysteria in women, and because the patient could not be trusted to masturbate herself, doctors were ready with a helpful hand and a bill for services rendered. Yet physicians were frequently perplexed by their task, which could take more than an hour to induce the “paroxysm.” In 1660, Nathaniel Highmore lamented the difficulty of causing orgasm in his lady patients, which was “not unlike that game of boys in which they try to rub their stomachs with one hand and pat their heads with the other.”

GIVE A FEMALE AN ORGASM, SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL

female orgasm as the praxis of the go slow general strike

voila

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