Many years ago I read this smart and innovative history - The Technology of Orgasm. The author - a historian of science - explained in the preface how her colleagues and academic presses would not take this work seriously and the struggles she went though to get it published. The book jacket listed her as a visiting professor - something I thought was all part of the flack associated with pursuing the study of a taboo topic (assuming, of course, that histories of women, sexuality, and sex were just not "serious" history of science).
I was please to find out I was wrong. I just read this article and discovered that not only was her book an academic success but it is now a documentary.
This is my inspiring, unexpected-victory story for the day.
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I'm still stuck on the fact that it's illegal to own more than five vibrators in five states. And that you can't sell them either. And yet, guns are everywhere, just as she points out. What a crock of bs.
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