http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/malfeasance
Thanks Granovetter
Friday, 22 August 2008
Alexander Pope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloisa_to_Abelard
After seeing the Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
After seeing the Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Hysteria and Opera
Question remains..Does female opearatic singing reflect prevalent notions of female hysteria of the time?
Wikipedia on Female Hysteria is fascinating!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
Wikipedia on Female Hysteria is fascinating!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
Patients diagnosed with female hysteria would sometimes undergo "pelvic massage" — manual stimulation of the woman's genitals by the doctor to "hysterical paroxysm", which is now recognized as orgasm.[1]
Rachael P. Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, has observed that such cases were quite profitable for physicians, since the patients were at no risk of death but needed constant treatment. The only problem was that physicians did not enjoy the tedious task of vaginal massage (generally referred to as 'pelvic massage'): The technique was difficult for a physician to master and could take hours to achieve "hysterical paroxysm." Referral to midwives, which had been common practice, meant a loss of business for the physician.[1]
A solution was the invention of massage devices, which shortened treatment from hours to minutes, removing the need for midwives and increasing a physician’s treatment capacity. Already at the turn of the century, hydrotherapy devices were available at Bath, and by the mid-19th century, they were popular at many high-profile bathing resorts across Europe and in America. By 1870, a clockwork-driven vibrator was available for physicians. In 1873, the first electromechanical vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria.
By the turn of the century, the spread of home electricity brought the vibrator to the consumer market. The appeal of cheaper treatment in the privacy of one’s own home understandably made the vibrator a popular early home appliance. In fact, the electric home vibrator was on the market before many other home appliance ’essentials’: nine years before the electric vacuum cleaner and 10 years before the electric iron.[1] A page from a Sears catalog of home electrical appliances from 1918 includes a portable vibrator with attachments, billed as ”Very useful and satisfactory for home service.”
Moonstruck
I saw Moonstruck again yesterday. Probably the best Romantic Comedy ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhifn6Q6DQo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhifn6Q6DQo
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