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...Hunting will end war-because hunters "do not make war." Hunting will stamp out heart disease; the anxious jogger is only miming the chase. You can bet that the hunter has no trouble with his sex life either. Shepard goes lyrical about the connection between the kill and the orgasm...
...mind. His ideas on sex and eroticism challenged and frightened the Freudian orthodoxy. Unlike Freud, Reich believed that mankind could build its civilizations without discontent. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and Marxism and made enemies on both sides. He postulated far-reaching theories on the nature and function of orgasm and suffered in the Victorian backlash...
...GIVEN the limitations of any such ground-breaking inquiry, Fisher's results are remarkably persuasive, and often unexpected. He performs his greatest service in disproving many popular and seemingly reasonable explanations for the puzzling fact that 30 per cent of all adult women never or only occasionally experience orgasm. He found no correlation whatsoever between a woman's orgasmic capacity and early traumatic sexual experiences, puritanical or repressive upbringing, traits of her sex partner, variety of techniques practiced, or years of sexual experience. He also concluded that a woman's likelihood to climax could not be measured by any externally...
Fisher discovered only one substantial correspondence between psychological data and orgasmic capacity--an intriguing correspondence which warrants much further research. The greater a woman's difficulty in reaching orgasm, the more consistently likely she was to be concerned about the "lack of dependability of love objects." The more likely she was, in particular, to have experienced in childhood an absent, undependable or distant father. Fisher could offer no real evidence as to what extent these attitudes were ineradicably formulated in early childhood, and to what extent they could be influenced by a woman's relationship with her sex partner...
FINALLY, FISHER offered fascinating new evidence on the vaginal/clitoral controversy. In contradiction with Masters and Johnson, he found that there was an actual experiential difference between the vaginal and clitoral orgasm. However, he discovered no corroboration for the psychoanalytic theory that the vaginal orgasm was "superior," more normal or mature than the clitoral orgasm. The majority of women, even those who could easily achieve both kinds, found clitoral orgasm more "exciting" and "pleasurable." If anything, the vaginally oriented woman showed more traces of anxiety than the clitorally oriented--probably, Seymour hypothesized, because she generally feels less control over her bodily...