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From this perspective, the characteristics of the behavioral treatment of sexual disorders differentiating it from the Freudian-based treatments are clear. (1) The behavioral methods are concerned with the maintenance rather than with the origin of the sexual disorder. Origin and history become important only as they reveal what the person does to perpetuate the very [...]
The numbers of known cases of sex reassignment followed by a second reassignment to the original sex are few (four known and probably no more than ten) and the number of such cases published, fewer still. The transsexual with such a history apparently rushes into the initial surgery prematurely, impulsively, and even against psychological advice. [...]
As for changing notions of “men” and “women” as groups, related to particular sets of social roles, one might note the history of early twentieth-century social welfare legislation for women. That legislation, designed to protect women in the labor market and intended to protect both genders in a judicial climate tending to deny the state’s [...]
Numerous researchers have examined the differences between the sexes in the field of sense perception, using both children and adults as subjects. Although one would expect to find differences between the sexes in preference of sensory modalities, in sensitivity, and in patterns of perceptual organization of various experiences, there is, in fact, little support for [...]
Why do people seek sex outside of marriage? Edwards and Booth (1976a) looked for correlates of the frequency of extramarital involvement among a stratified probability sample of Toronto families among both subject-background variables and marital variables. Unlike previous research, they found no effects from education, occupation, employment of the wife, or religion. Age was the [...]