Though the mobile uterus was disavowed, “hysteria” remained: As late as the 1920s, clitoral stimulation was considered the proper treatment for feminine hysteria. That meant doctors—typically male—were obliged to stimulate moody women to orgasm in clinical settings. Hilariously, most of the doctors seemed to find the task boring and tedious, which drove the invention of the electric vibrator in Paris in the late nineteenth century.
