Impotence is often associated with latent homosexual drives, perhaps caused by environmental factors such as early sexual trauma, an adolescent homosexual experience, or some unfortunate sexual failure with a prostitute. Such factors, of course, should always be taken into consideration and discussed in detail with the patient. The support of the partner is important in [...]

Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been inexorably linked with problems of and ideas about human sexuality. From the very beginning of Freud’s thinking about the neuroses, particularly at first the hysterias, the problem of sexuality assumed a significant and central role. It was Charcot, with whom Freud had studied in Paris, after all, who had [...]

How true is the overall analysis of women’s motivation for work? Crowley, Levitan, and Quinn tested the validity of some commonly held beliefs regarding women in a large national survey. Their findings indicated no support for the belief that women work only for economic rewards nor that they are less concerned than men that their [...]

Freeman’s observation of a Castilian hamlet superficially seems to address a basic division between farmers and shepherds. However, in sexual matters and capacity, the shepherd is far more feared than the farmer, as Freeman reports:

The shepherd is forced, by definition, out of the ken of the community which depends upon physical presence for social control. [...]

Changes in sex-related characteristics which occur in humans with advancing age include both physiological changes and behavioral changes. The latter are the result of physiological or psychological causes or both. It generally is true that aging, per se, is only one of a number of variables which interact to reduce sexuality in older people. Aging, [...]