Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

MARRIAGEwomen. Husbands do not always display the considerationnecessary to ensure orgasm in their wives, and sinceorgasm is normally slower in women than in men it isobvious that, in the absence of such consideration, withdrawalmust frequently take place before the orgasm hasoccurred in the wife, who isthus left in a state of acutenervous dissatisfaction and irritability. But the anxiousapprehension and attention to his own state involved onthe husband's part by premature withdrawal and the jarcaused by the sudden breaking off of the act at its culminatingmoment cannot fail sometimes to be injuriousto him. It is necessary to be alive to the possible existenceof this practice, and to suspend it if the symptoms seemto depend on it. For a large number of people, there canbe no doubt, interrupted coitus is unsuited and shouldgive place to some better method of preventive intercourse.Interrupted intercourse should not be persisted inunless it can be so carried out, by mutual sympathy andcooperation, that no shock or apprehension is caused tothe husband, and that the wife receives due satisfaction;the latter point may be achieved by delaying intercourseuntil tumescense is well advanced and she is approachingthe orgasm.The opposite practice of prolonged or reserved coitus,with or without ultimate orgasm, has nowadays numerousadvocates and a considerable body of practical adherents,not so many as interrupted coitus because it is less easyto carry out. It was the ordinary practice of the OneidaCommunity, and was later advocated in Dr. Alice Stockham'swell-known book, Karezza. There can be no doubtthat prolonged intercourse is highly agreeablewoman partner, and without the slightest evil results;to theshe is left entirely free and is not precluded from experiencingthe orgasm at its own good time. All women whofor