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Female and Male Sexual Dysfunctions -
Sexual Dysfunctions
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What can be done?
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A Triple Distortion
The sexual oppression under which all of us live has many aspects. However, with regard to human sexual functioning, we can point to one specific negative factor which seems to be more significant than any other: The nearly exclusive concern, indeed the obsession, with the male and female sex organs. The exaggerated importance ascribed to the sex organs has blinded not only the average person, but even certain theoreticians of sex to the full range of human sexual capacities. "Genitality" still reigns as the supreme sexual ideal, and, as a result, the sexual relationships in our society suffer a triple distortion:
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- An overemphasis on the male initiative (at the expense of the female initiative),
- an overemphasis on coitus (at the expense of other forms of sexual intercourse), and
- an overemphasis on orgasm (at the expense of leisurely sensual enjoyment).
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