If you admire and encourage your son when he plays war games or competitive sport, and your daughter when she plays with her dolls or ‘helps Mummy’, don’t show your disapproval when they find out their genitals are different, and when they play with them. Answer, as best you can, every question your child asks [...]
The kinds of impressions assembled here seem to support the notion that play, at least sexual play in marriage, has indeed been permeated with dimensions of a work ethic. The play of marital sex is presented by the counsellors quite definitely as work .. . This paradox, play as work, may be said to be [...]
Second, by its thrusting within the vagina, and by its indirect stimulation of the woman’s clitoris through the movement of her labia minora, the penis provides the woman with sexual stimulation. If the man is a considerate lover, he will not neglect this aspect of the function of his penis in his desire to reach [...]
This enables some men who have had a spinal cord injury and are paraplegic to get erections, from psychological stimuli, although their spinal parasympathetic nerves are cut off from the erotic messages sent by the brain. The second way in which a man can get an erection is well known to almost every man. This [...]
Although human sexuality and pleasure are so intimately related, it is interesting that, almost alone of the behavioural drives, the sexual drive can be suppressed, modified, or diverted; and a. person, if sufficiently motivated, can live for years without needing any sexual release. Equally, if a person who is sexually stimulated is unable to obtain [...]