Jessica Wynn

Still, women's pain is generally dismissed as hysterical.

Yeah, it does.

Hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus.

And for centuries, any woman who was anxious or depressed or angry or just inconvenient could be labeled hysterical and was institutionalized.

And then one of these treatments was pelvic massage.

So doctors manually stimulated women to orgasm to supposedly release their hysteria.

And eventually, the vibrator was invented as a medical device, not to help women, but to speed things up because, and this is a real quote, the doctor's hands got tired.

God, yeah.

Raw dog medicine.

Yeah.

The fact that pelvic massage brought women pleasure was treated like a side effect.

So that's the level of absurdity we're dealing with historically.

It's amazing they could even figure it out since the clitoris was barely acknowledged until the 20th century.

It wasn't fully mapped until 1998.

Oh, God.

Gross.

I mean, this ick is why I've always insisted on a female gynecologist.

But I want to tell you...

The first gynecologist I went to was a man.

I was 14, 15, whenever you first go.