According to Wikipedia female hysteria was once diagnosed by Victorian doctors as a widespread affliction with symptoms of faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and “a tendency to cause trouble”.
Women always caused trouble in the minds of men and medical authorities sought to cure this female plague with the introduction of Horse Action Saddles. The saddles’ rocking motion was guaranteed to sap the mysterious sensation within a frail woman’s body. Water massage and vibrators were also useful tools in defeating this curse on womankind.
Electro-shock was introduced as another weapon for this crusade, but the Sexual Revolution of the 1950s brought light to the female condition of desire and women’s sexual partners (both male and female) granted release through the all-wonderous orgasm.
Of course poor people knew the cure for hysteria, because they didn’t have the money to fool themselves about morality.
Remember: Sex is good for you.
And so is Guinness Beer.