That being said, the treatments utilized to “cure” hysteria were the starting point for female sexual liberation and the understanding of female sexuality.
Although hysterical symptoms are referenced in ancient scripts before Hippocrates, the term, or at least a relating term for hysteria, was not used until Hippocrates work on the subject in the 5th century BC. The epidemiology of hysteria at the time was related to “the abnormal movements of the uterus in the body” (Carta et al. 111), a side effect from sexual depravity. Plato second this opinion in his belief that “the idea of a female madness related to the lack of a normal sexual life: Plato, in Timaeus, argues that the uterus is sad and unfortunate when it does