Nymphomania as it is: why it appears and how they tried to treat it (6 photos + 1 video)

“Female rabies” was considered a dangerous disease and was fought quite radically.







Nymphomania is hypersexuality, when a woman becomes “insatiable” and moves from one partner to another. Over the course of her life, such a lady may have hundreds of men, but she cannot stop at any of them.

Translated from Greek, “nymphomaniac” is translated as “crazy bride”; according to statistics, 1 girl out of 2.5 thousand suffers from it. Symptoms: wild promiscuity and inability to resist sexual adventures with a new partner. Not to be confused with prostitution - there girls work for money, but here they work because of frustration. In addition, a seasoned nymphomaniac can easily surpass any “priestess of love” in terms of the number of men.



It is a mistake to think that a nymphomaniac can satisfy some secret desires of men and satisfy their desires. She always satisfies only her own.



There are congenital and acquired nymphomania. Congenital appears, as a rule, at 12-14 years of age. Acquired depends on mental health and hormonal changes.

Women with this disease were treated in ancient times. Back then it was called “uterine rabies” and the woman was smoked with herbs with a sedative effect. In the Middle Ages, nymphomaniacs were equated with witches and handed over to the Inquisition. Their fate was extremely sad; there was no talk of any treatment.



In the 19th century, nymphomaniacs were placed in a madhouse. There they were dunked in ice baths and cool compresses were applied to their genitals. If it didn’t help, they did bloodletting and put on a straitjacket. In general, they did everything to make the woman go crazy and not get cured.



Then the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft Ebing took up the matter. This learned man published the work “Sexual Psychopathy,” where he described in detail several cases of nymphomania. In one of them, a woman had up to 10 partners a day, but this was not enough for her. Another desperately ran after men until her death, and she lived until she was 73 years old. Well, the third unfortunate woman fell ill with nymphomania at the age of 30 and soon died from exhaustion - all her strength went into finding new partners.

Nowadays, it is already well established that nymphomania can be treated with medications and psychotherapy. Women are no longer placed in a mental hospital or dragged to the dungeons of the Inquisition. And if the lady is satisfied with everything, no one will even mention the treatment. They even make films, for example, there is a film by Lars Von Trier “Nymphomaniac”, although this spectacle is strictly not for everyone.



So times have changed.