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

. OnPSYCHOLOGY OF SEXness and audacity, and the tendency to social and politicalconservatism, which is everywhere regarded as characteristicof old age, though there are notable exceptions to thistendency.the whole, since the reproductivelife in men is ofso much less intensity than in women, the male climactericis a somewhat vague and comparatively unimportantperiod. Still it may induce a number of minor psychictraits of disagreeable character irritability, meanness,miserliness, etc. corresponding to traits found in womenat the same period. It may also lead to a wider and calmeroutlook on life, the psychic changes involved, however,being more endogenous, more within, on account of thenormally greater activity of men in the world, than withwomen. There may be, as Rankin put it,"a new lease oflife," even though on a plane of lessened activities, modifiedambitions, and a chastened philosophy.BIBLIOGRAPHYF. H. A. MARSHALL, The Physiology of Reproduction.G. MARANON, The Climacteric.KENNETH WALKER, "The Accidents of the Male Climacteric,"British Medical Journal, 9 Jan. 1932.W. J. FIELDING, Sex and the Love-Life.W. GALLICHAN, The Critical Age of Women.