“Certain women have the capacity to identify completely with their men and are happy in their role as encouraging and contributing companions… They may be the most intelligent and lovely women, but they are unaggressive and not competitive… These women are not frigid, but only after long courting do they allow any intimacies. In contrast [...]
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Drapetomania (n.) the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery and other means of pathologizing women for humanness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carol Tavris, drapetomania, frigidity, Human Sexual Response, leonore tiefer, Masters and Johnson, nympomania, oh the pain, pathologizing femaleness as a disease of inferiority and sexless devotion to their masters on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »