Mention vibrators and most people immediately think of women’s sexual pleasure. And no wonder: An estimated one-third of adult American women now own at least one. Clitoral stimulation with vibrators ...

Before "that time of the month" became a catch-all excuse for a woman's mood swings, there was another, stranger uterus-adjacent reason for female distress: hysteria. This wasn't just a misogynistic ...

Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero) Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female ...