Fensterheim has used the classical desensitization (in imagery, with relaxation) for the treatment of ejaculatory incompetence. All of the men so treated were able to ejaculate in the presence of a woman but were unable to do so during intercourse. The specific scenes used in the hierarchy were tailored to each individual, but all centered [...]

Therapy The incidence of homosexuality is sufficiently high that, on the basis of the simple logistics of health-care delivery, it is economically nonsensical to declare all homosexuals in need of therapy. It would be impossible to supply enough therapists or to meet the staggeringly high cost. Moreover, there is no known form of therapy that [...]

Sex stereotypes denote not only the differences in attributes between men and women, but also the behaviors suitable to each. If, for instance, an irate student were to scuffle physically with a same sex roommate, observers’ reactions would differ greatly if the students were women or men. Similarly, if the same student were to burst [...]

Malinowski’s title, Sex and Repression in Savage Society should read Sex in Savage Society and Repression in Western Society, to aptly reflect his comparative orientation. In this work Malinowski attempts to demonstrate his theory of culture, with its definite emphasis on the nuclear family, this with regard to the Oedipal Complex, the issue of the [...]

Many societies forbid sexual relations between marital partners during menstruation, pregnancy, and the postpartum period. In general, these taboos reflect fear of the woman’s power to contaminate at these times, though the postpartum taboos also serve as a control on fertility by spacing births. Such spacing serves as a protective health measure for both the [...]