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...Happily, Reuben does not often tangle with anything so complex as high school zoology. Mostly he cheerleads for more and better female orgasms: "The female capacity for orgasm is so great that it has never been fully measured...
Dubious Advice. Reuben employs his familiar casual coyness, strained informality, unconvincing case histories and weak jokes. There is also some sloppy scholarship and an occasional piece of dubious advice. For example, he gleefully quotes "a veteran police officer" who advises women threatened with imminent rape to take the assailant's testicles in one hand and smash them with the other. In his conflicting role as women's liberator and amiable guardian of traditional femininity, Reuben asks: "Should a woman really do something as terrible as that?" Naturally, the good liberal doctor would not want to be responsible...
...Granted, Reuben is not a karate expert. But even his science is distorted to bolster his image as an honorary member of the Sisterhood. "Every human embryo starts out as female," Reuben asserts. It is the same nonsense fobbed off by Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, page 30), who claimed as her source not a geneticist but a woman psychoanalyst. The fallacious reasoning behind the claim is that since human fetuses start out without male genitalia. they are physically female. The fact is that sex is determined at the moment of fertilization by the combination of chromosomes contained in the sperm...
Patent Medicines. In subsequent chapters, Dr. Reuben sensibly relates sexual pleasure to higher erogenous zones like the brain. But generally he is too busy trying to shimmy, like Sister Kate, to rhythms established by Masters and Johnson. His chapters on how to catch and hold a man are out of the dark ages of the women's magazines. Where else could one find such statements as "selecting a husband is the most urgent and critical decision a woman will make in her lifetime," or his description of dedicated bachelors as "always charming, always engaging, but regrettably never charmed...
There is little doubt that Reuben is as concerned with maximizing human happiness as he is with formulating another bestseller. His basic premise is that "every modern woman is entitled to enjoy the greatest sensory experiences." Yet he seems to have little appreciation of the incredible variety and uniqueness of life. While he consistently states that a woman should make up her own mind about how to satisfy her sexual appetites, he is practically Mosaic in insisting that the best place to do it is through a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. But then how does a woman make the most...