For the sexually unfulfilled woman these days, there are a wide variety of solutions. If re-runs of The Bachelor aren’t cutting it, a plethora of sex toys are available for purchase—most notably the ...

For a film that shows the folly of failing to take the female orgasm seriously, "Hysteria" ends up taking a silly angle on a potentially fascinating slice of secret history. It's not exactly breaking ...

For those of you who don't know what "female hysteria" is, be ready to get super depressed. To put it simply, female hysteria was an umbrella diagnosis doctors used to label women they considered, in ...

In the 1800s, “Hysteria” was a common medical diagnosis, afflicting as many as 75% of middle-class women. Symptoms included “fainting, anxiety, sleeplessness, nervousness and [my favorite!] ‘a ...

Mention vibrators and most people immediately think of women’s sexual pleasure. And no wonder: An estimated one-third of adult American women now own at least one. Clitoral stimulation with vibrators ...

Tanya Wexler’s film, “Hysteria,” a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England opening May 18, begins with a note to the audience: “This story is based on true events.

They'd tremble, flush a deep red, moan and feel remarkably better afterward, a spring in their step as they left their physicians' operating theatres. Victorian women climaxing – unbeknownst to even ...