Rational sex ethics, further investigations : a more intensive study of sex histories, case histories, and dreams with therapeutic suggestions, and philosophical deductions / by W.F. Robie.

  • Robie, W. F. (Walter Franklin), 1866-1928.
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[1919]
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    even among us medical men, and what simple remedies often immediately rectify mistakes of many years’ stand- ing. We were talking about the current sex books, and he said there was almost no definite information in them, and I said, “‘ Especially in those for girls, and that is why I am writing a book for girls just now.” Then I said, thinking to show how ignorant our profession is of sex, that a scientist investigating these problems had told me that Adolph Meyer, one of the foremost psy- chiatrists, had told him that sixty per cent. of women in this country were frigid. My acquaintance spoke up and said, ‘* My wife is one of them.” I replied, “ But that statement is not true, and I will stake what little reputation J have that not one-sixth of one per cent. of women in this country are frigid; so if your wife is such I have discovered a rare case. It will make the third in my professional life.” I con- tinued, “The chances are ten thousand to one that your wife is as normal as mine, or as the ordinary woman.” He hoped that this might be true, for his suffermgs had been intense during ten years of faith- fulness to her. He informed me that they had become cold toward each other, that the early caresses and tokens of affection had long since been dispensed with, that there was little pleasure in living, for either, that he was much worried concerning her health and _ his own, finally saying that no outsider realized how close his home was on the rocks. In spite of his claim that his wife never had shown sex desire in the ten years of their married life, I daringly told him that, though I was not quack enough to make an absolute guarantee, since there was the remote possibility of his wife’s