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Feminists consider Sigmund Freud one of history's leading male chauvinist pigs. No wonder. The master taught that women are far more masochistic and narcissistic than men and more prone to neurosis, that they are rigid and unchangeable by the age of 30, and unable to equal the high...
In general, the writers seek to preserve Freud's notions of penis envy and the castration complex, but argue that the effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content...
Other articles in the journal play down the importance of the castration complex, which Freud believed always preceded the Oedipus complex; he felt that the drive to love and bear children arises from woman's sense of being mutilated, her feeling of loss. Psychiatrist Henri Parens, for one, reports...
On the basis of her findings, Hite criticizes Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson for insisting that intercourse is the normal way for women to reach orgasm. The famous team argues that the thrust of the penis pulls the labia against the clitoris and produces female orgasm. To Hite this is...
Hite also concludes that orgasms produced by clitoral massage are stronger and more ecstatic than those produced by intercourse-a finding that other sex researchers, including Masters and Johnson, support. But Hite goes still further, arguing that many female orgasms during intercourse are "emotional orgasms"-diffuse physical sensations produced mainly...