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    Sexual Curiosities? Aphrodisiacs in early modern England

    Jennifer Evans is a lecturer in history at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on sexual health and fertility in early modern England. Her first book Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in early modern England was published by Boydell and Brewer in the Royal Historical Society New Studies in History Series in September 2014 ...

    The Vibrations of the Past: how a Medical Remedy turned into a Sexual ...

    In popular culture, the image of the vibrator as an invention against hysteria seems to be deeply rooted. The English physician Joseph Mortimer Granville was the inventor of the portable electromechanical vibrator and is portrayed in the romantic comedy Hysteria (2011), where the image of the vibrator as a cure for hysteria is depicted.. This is remarkable, because in 1883 Granville wrote ...