• @Mango@lemmy.world
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    14 months ago

    Gynecology probably used to be really bullshit and run by dudes who just wanted to deal with vagina for a living.

    • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      54 months ago

      Yes on the bullshit, less on the creepy sexual part.

      More a mix of people who viewed it as ensuring families are healthy and populous, and looking out for a husbands wife’s reproductive tract and keeping his wife’s vagina “good”, and making money with a speciality.

      Even in the era when “manual stimulation” as a treatment for hysteria was a thing, there are consistent records of doctors loathing the procedure. Part of what inspired the creation of the vibrator.

      • @MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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        4 months ago

        Part of what inspired the creation of the vibrator.

        what a wild ride, and look how far we’ve come with technology… there’s now an app for that