“Electricity has given so much comfort to womankind …
It gave her the vacuum cleaner, the pop-up toaster and the automatic ice dispenser. And perhaps above all, it gave her the vibrator …”
Natalie Angier, New York Times
review of “The Technology of Orgasm”

Friday, October 19th: Free!
DVD release party for “PASSION & POWER”!
This stirring documentary is based on Rachel P. Maines’ ground-breaking book “The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. The film chronicles the invention of the vibrator and its impact on sexual politics by tracing it from a labor saving device invented by doctors to cure women of “hysteria” to a household product manufactured and sold by mainstream companies such as Sears Roebuck, General Electric and Hamilton Beach.

This tasteful and funny story is told by interviews with historians Rachel Maines and Katharine Young; feminist pioneers, Betty Dodson and Dell Williams; Texas housewife Joanne Webb, her lawyer, BeAnn Sisemore and witty commentary by New York performance artist, Reno. Illustrations are by Ellen Blonder; music by Mark Adler.

When: Friday, October 19th
Time: 6:30 pm
Where:Good Vibrations Polk Street Store
1620 Polk Street (at Sacramento Street)
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 345-0400
Info: http://www.technologyoforgasm.com/index.asp

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