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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXin the male sex as some might desire. For many marriedcouples, however, itmay be said that it is only after thewife's menopause that marriage is finally achieved in itsfull sense as a happy and harmonious fellowship, eventhough it may sometimes seem to recall that of brotherand sister. There is no doubt about the increased intellectualactivity of women at this age and the activecareers of many women of distinction may only be said tohave begun after the sexual reproductive period was over.There are, indeed, some women who at this time use theirincreased activities in striving to interfere with the activitiesof their growing-up children, especially to dominatetheir daughters, if unmarried and still within the homecircle;many lives have thus been blighted, and kindlybut firm rebellion is here necessary; for if some sufferingis inevitable it is better that the old should suffer thanthe young. But the wholesomely cultivated woman, whileoften devoted to her grandchildren, exercises her liberatedmaternal energies in the larger social world, whichoffersendless scopefor wide moral and other activities.It is a debated question how far there can be said to beIf soany period in men corresponding to the menopause.it is certainly vague, as indeed is sufficiently indicated bythe fact that the sperm-secreting function has no necessaryfinal term and may be continued to advanced old age,even in one reported case to the age of 103. There are,however, times in a man's life when in some cases arecognition of a sudden turn in the road enters consciousnesswith disturbing effect. Since Kurt Mendel calledattention to the point, such a phenomenon, correspondingto the menopause in women, has been widely recognized,though Krafft-Ebing and others have denied it. But evenin ancient days a "grand climacteric" was recognized andplaced at the age of 63. We cannot, however, speak strictly