{"611659":{"#nid":"611659","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of History and Sociology Chair Eric Schatzberg and Georgia Tech instructor Hallie Lieberman published a paper that was featured by The Atlantic. In addition, the two were also quoted in the story about the myth of Victorian era doctors treating female patients by stimulating them to orgasm with a vibrator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is absolutely no evidence that Victorian doctors used vibrators to stimulate orgasm in women as a medical technique, asserts the paper, written by two historians at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;Manual massage of female genitals,\u0026rdquo; they write, \u0026ldquo;was never a routine medical treatment for hysteria.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s no evidence for it,\u0026rdquo; says Hallie Lieberman, an author of both the new paper and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hallielieberman.com\/what-we-do\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBuzz\u003C\/em\u003E, a popular history of sex toys\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s inaccurate.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2018\/09\/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors\/569446\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-09-19 14:57:10","changed_gmt":"2018-09-19 14:57:10","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2018\/09\/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors\/569446\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"596336":{"id":"596336","type":"image","title":"Hallie Lieberman","body":null,"created":"1506033418","gmt_created":"2017-09-21 22:36:58","changed":"1506033481","gmt_changed":"2017-09-21 22:38:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"227272","name":"01de102.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01de102.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01de102.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10427,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/01de102.jpg?itok=0OaWPfz5"}}},"media_ids":["596336"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179141","name":"Hallie Lieberman"},{"id":"174735","name":"Eric Schatzberg"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}