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

MARRIAGEactual deviations of the sexual impulse. In marriedwomen the results are often aggravated by the fact thatthe husband is at this time beginning to lose sexual power,and his affection for his wife has entered into a stage ofpeaceful affection rendering it difficult for him to respondto her renewed ardor, which thus tends to go into otherdirections and perhaps to assume the form of jealousy. Sothat on the psychic side a number of unamiable traitsmaydevelop as well as painful troubles on the physical side.But on both sides, when these become at allare due not directly to the menopausegrave, theybut to the liberationat this period of tendencies alreadyorganism.It isimportant to make clear that not onlylatent in theare suchsymptoms not essentially inherent in the menopause itselfbut that this time of life naturally brings with it manycompensating advantages." Among countless numbers ofwomen/' as W. J. Fielding remarks, "the climacteric hasbeen the beginning of a golden period of achievement.Nor is there any reason why women, normally constituted,should lose their sexual charms at this time. As amatter of fact, many women are more attractive at fiftythan they were at twenty-five; and if their personality hasbeen developed and enriched by the passing years, theymay be more charming at sixty than they were at thirty."Hofstatter remarks that there become visible not onlysome physical male characteristics but what he terms "asurprising approximation to masculine habits and ways ofthought: clarity, objectivity, a sense for conceptions ofabstract justice, toleration, business aptitude, generalsocial as well as political aptitudes/'While recognizingthese as possible psychic accompaniments of the postmenstruallife it is not necessary to call them masculine.They are non-sexual aptitudes, by no means so common