Category: Technology Fears

• The "Bicycle" Health Crisis

  This theory claimed that the bicycle was damaging women’s bodies, especially their reproductive systems, and that its spread would weaken femininity, reduce childbirth, and upset social order. It emerged during the 1890s bicycle boom, when women’s mobility, clothing reform, athletics, and public independence became unusually visible. Physicians, clergy, journalists, and commentators produced a wide range of warnings about exhaustion, pelvic injury, infertility, moral danger, and the notorious condition known as "bicycle face."