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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXbecome good lovers and a large proportionof womenconsequently remained "frigid."to be apparently frigidThere are thus many reasons why women should tendunder the conditions of civilization,since these conditions involve profound ignoranceof sexual matters in both sexes, bad education, prudery,and an abnormally late age for the commencement ofsexual relationships.But when it is asserted that an absolutesexual anaesthesia is common in women it is necessaryto remember that the questionis much more difficultand complicated in women than in men. Moreover, inwomen we have to distinguish between the presence oflibido and the presence of pleasure in coitus. The firstof these may be present in the absence of the second, andeven when both are absent it cannot be affirmed that sexualanaesthesia exists. It isperhaps significant that Hamil-of womenton found that a high proportion (55 per cent)with inferior capacity for orgasm yet rateabove the average in sex desire.themselves asCases occur in which awoman is frigid with a succession of men but at last, perhapsin late middle age, the sexual impulse arises. Even ifit never occurs at all in coitus itmay be manifested inother forms, not merely in deviated activities, but alsothrough the medium of outlying erogenous zones whichin women are far more numerous than in men, and farmore apt to be stimulated.Thus it is much more difficult in a woman than in aman to affirm the presence of sexual anaesthesia. All wecan say in a particular case is that we have not yet discoveredthe form in which the woman's sexual impulse ismanifested, or may in the future be manifested. EvenOtto Adler, who was confident concerning the frequencyof sexual anaesthesia in women, when he wished to bringforward a final proof of the existence of the "femme dc