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New York, NY 10019 www.evesgarden.com EFTA01719826  1922 *Women didn't have orgasms. *Not officially. 0 Not in 1922, the year that I was born. In 1922, Isadora Duncan was dancing, Bessie Smith was singing, Georgia O'Keeffe was painting, Harry Houdini was escaping, and Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce were writing — this was the year that Ulysses was finally published, after nearly a decade of censorship battles, and all 500 copies shipped to the United States were seized by government authorities, and burned. This was the year that Mussolini marched on Rome and formed the Fascist government, that the USSR was created, and that a reparations commission fixed Germany's compen- sation for material losses and suffering caused by the Great r War at 132 billion gold marks, triggering the beginnings of 4 In The Garden German inflation and setting the stage for World War II. The Memoirs of the Garden Keeper will be published in the Fall of 2004. EFTA01719827  Chapter One of In The Garden The Memoirs of the Garden Keeper eve's warden We grow pleasurable things for women New York, NY 10019 By www.evesgarden.com Dell Williams, Founder of Eve's Garden Eve's Product Gorden, Inc., All rights reserved and Lynn Vannucci EFTA01719828  Thwarted feminine desire turned us into busybodies (and civilized century into which all of you who are able right now worse), but our desire itself was the disease, and it was to read these words were born: women's sexual desire was treated medically. officially categorized by the American Psychiatric Association as a medical condition until 1952. Finding a husband was the first course of treatment recommended for virgins who presented with But it's not my intention here to delve into the details of symptoms of "hysteria." Doctors generated hand- how female sexual desire has been perverted by established some incomes for themselves by performing in-office patriarchal authority for the last 10,000 years or so. Rachel P. genital massage to relieve the suffering of married Maines has already done that in her scholarly and provocative women, widows, and nuns. "Heroic" measures such as book The Technology of Orgasm. clitoridectomies were used to cure the most difficult cases of "hysteria" - nymphomania and chronic masturbation. What I want to do is to address what's happened in the fifty or so years since the women of America have been officially I am not referring here to some chronologically or geo- allowed to get good and horny without the threat of being graphically distant culture passing off the barbaric practice of subjected to corrective surgery — how far we have come and female genital mutilation as a societal norm, or prettifying it how, so far, some very basic concepts remain frustratingly just by calling it circumcision. I am not referring to some of the outside the reach of a collective emotional and imaginative darker and more salacious practices of medieval physics. I am and, importantly, political ability to digest them. talking about how female desire has been dealt with in 0' Western medical tradition, in our own country, in the long, • EFTA01719829  I want to clear up some misconceptions about the women's In 1922, King Tut's tomb was unearthed from the Valley of movement of the 1960's and 70's, of which I am a proud Kings, insulin was isolated and used for the first time in the veteran. I want to cheer the young women out there treatment of diabetes, and it had been two years since the today who, in spite of the failures of a forty year old I 9th amendment was ratified. "sexual revolution" and what is benignly called a Women had the vote but we still didn't have orgasms. "conservative backlash" in the mainstream media, are still out there bringing fresh energy and ideas to the We had "hysterical crises." fight for women's rights. I want to rail a little bit about "What is a hysterical crisis? On the clinical level, excito-motor how, in these early years of a brand new century, paroxysmic accidents accompanied by convulsions and crises of women's sexual desire is still being classified as a disorder, inhibition with loss of consciousness, lethargy, or catalepsy..." albeit in new ways — how the big pharmaceutical companies Hysterical crises were accidents, and they were also the pre- are in currently hot competition with each other for the scribed relief for a disorder characterized by a set of symptoms billion dollar bonanza that awaits the first one of them to "including but not limited to fainting (syncope), edema or come up with a chemical cure that will fix us once and for all. hyperemia (congestion caused by fluid retention, either localized I want to recommend a few books that I believe are essential or general), nervousness, insomnia, sensations of heaviness in the reading. Books that will shock and outrage and educate their abdomen, muscle spasms, shortness of breath, loss of appetite for reader, move her to a better understanding of her body, and food or for sex with the approved male partner, and sometimes a her power, and her story. tendency to cause trouble for others, particularly members of the And, along the way, I want to tell you the story of how a nice patient's immediate family." Jewish girl from the Bronx ended up owning a sex toy store. EFTA01719830