In the Victorian era, it was considered feminine and appropriate for young women to faint. Women with a frail and weak appearance were even considered to be ideal beauties. This fashion obviously did not apply to young men, who were expected to be strong and healthy. Some say that the corset women wore in order to supposedly slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette by reducing the waist and thereby exaggerating the bust and the hips was the cause of their tendency to faint. ‘Tightlacing’ with extreme waist constriction was thought to impede venous return.
Something something venous return...
The mechanisms underlying the higher fainting rate in women will remain to fascinate clinicians and physiologists interested in integrative studies. It seems highly unlikely that ‘a single fainting factor’ will ever be identified, since women differ from men physiologically and psychologically in many aspects, whatever emancipation may say.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727011/
Something something venous return...
Another fainting spell, obviously.
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