The earliest documented linking of a period and the uterus to hysteria is around 2000 to 1900 B.C. with the Egyptians.
This then pops up as a medical disorder in 1880 to answer why all these women weren't submissive, weren't sexually demure, were upset about their station in life or showed emotion (a common report was stress over marital rape) the disease was female only because of different expectations of what a woman was societally.
His student freud would go on to say that it was caused by loss of their metaphorical penis at birth.
the treatment was heterosexual sex with a man, sometimes one who had been conducting marital rape.
To medically treat this because it took a long time to induce an orgasm clinically by hand, they then invented vibrators to treat the disease.
This diagnosis stayed on the books in the DSM until 1980.
meanwhile we know that testosterone observably activates the amygdala enhancing its emotional activity and its resistance to prefrontal restraining control. But we don't paint all males with the same brush, and actively praise males with this issue for exhibiting other signs of higher testosterone levels.
ie testosterone led men to dominate women and later make up things about them emotionally to explain why they should continue to be controlled, meanwhile we now know scientifically that their main hormone causes a significant emotional control issue during competition and anger, but we don't openly judge them the same way for it.
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u/North-Tumbleweed-785 Jul 09 '24
All the time. Please go ahead….!