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Introduction
_In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the male medical profession commonly diagnosed women to be suffering from “Hysteria,” a catch-all phrase for any mental or emotional condition doctors didn’t understand, or even for normal female moods. The standard treatment was for doctors to administer orgasms to these women. At first the doctors performed this procedure manually, but the advent of electric power brought the vibrator, one of the earliest electrical inventions, specifically for doctors to give orgasms to women.
A well–researched true source for information on this practice is “The Technology of Orgasm” by Rachel Maines. For some doctors, these treatments comprised about half of their practice. Some women believed the diagnosis and took the procedure as a medical necessity. Other women accepted this situation because this was the only way they were able to get an orgasm since most of their husbands didn’t know or care about their sexual satisfaction. These matters were not openly discussed by most people because of society’s prevailing prudishness. At the time, women were not allowed to vote and they had far fewer rights than men regarding money and property. Wife-beating was common and seldom prosecuted. |
_ This is the setting for my erotic novel “The Orgasm Rebellion.” While most novelists strive to put the reader into the heads of their characters, I’ve tried to put you into their bodies as well. This is for the reader to enjoy sexuality as the characters do, for its own sake, and to explore the awkward process people of that era went thru to discover and fulfill their sexuality.
My aim is to amuse and arouse the reader. If you’re uncomfortable with explicit descriptions of sex, this book is not for you. While there is a lot of sex in “The Orgasm Rebellion,” there is also a lot of story about what happens to the characters besides sex. Story is what separates erotica from pornography, altho this distinction means nothing to people who will condemn the book. The other theme in “The Orgasm Rebellion” is women trying to stop violence against them by men. Because I witnessed my father beat my mother, this issue is close to my heart. Accordingly, I pledge a portion of my profit from “The Orgasm Rebellion” will go to support women’s shelters, which are woefully under-funded to meet this still-common problem. I hope you enjoy the story. -Frank Lingo, June 2011 |
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_Copyright @ The Orgasm Rebellion 2010. The Orgasm Rebellion is fiction. Any resemblance to real persons is unintended and purely coincidental.