Hysteria is about a doctor who got a job jacking off stressed-out women in a clinical setting. When he eventually developed something like carpel tunnel servicing the insatiable needs of his patients, he invented the vibrator so they could jack themselves off. In this way he did a great service for his society, and the sanity of those in it.

I think the sexual dysfunction of American society is appalling; probably the only place worse is Iran! That old “bundling board” mentality of our founders just won’t go away, which is why all that titillating soft-porn shit on Girls is so popular. There was something to be said in this film about the realities of sexuality that would have been valuable for Americans to hear. The problem is Hysteria played it safe. It didn’t have the guts to be all about sex. Instead, it broadened into a pastiche of women’s issues, all tackled superficially.  It made itself inconsequential, and it didn’t have to be that way.

It’s not a bad film, just disappointing and a touch dull.