For many doctors, as for their patients, sex is a private, personal and sometimes embarrassing topic. Most people have sexual anxieties or disappointments at some time in their lives, but the majority are able to overcome them or adapt to them with, if they are lucky, the help of a loving partner. However, whether we [...]

The doctor was in a quandary. He wanted to help her; wanted to ask her to bring her husband to see him, but felt alarmed by his feelings of anger towards the husband, and that he himself could do better given half a chance. To give himself time to think, he said he would make [...]

A patient who is confident about her sexuality and can be open about her sexual activity, is able to ask without embarassment for an appointment to see her own general practitioner (GP) in a clinic publicised as a ‘family planning clinic’. A person less confident may need to make an appointment for an ordinary surgery [...]

A couple came to a counselling clinic with a short note of introduction. The man was in his 30s, intelligent, sensitive and outgoing, and the woman was tiny, fair and very shy. They were accompanied by four children between 6 and 12 years. The woman gave her age as 28 but the most striking thing [...]

The decision to remain childless by one’s own actions and against one’s own instinct for parenting is hard and needs sensitive handling, with space given for the person to mourn their decision. As with all contraceptive decisions, the time needs to be right. Except for sterilization, the choices are reversible and can be reviewed. This [...]

The offender in each of the 2,274 cases of offenses in the present study “has been legally convicted as the result of an overt act, committed by him for his own immediate sexual gratification, which is contrary to the prevailing sexual mores of the vicinity in which he lives and/or is legally punishable.” Some of [...]

The final settlements of criminal cases may be divided into those that involved imprisonment and those that did not. Of those involving imprisonment a further division may be made into (1) shorter imprisonment, usually in minimum or medium custody institutions, and (2) longer imprisonment, usually in maximum or medium custody institutions. For practical purposes we [...]

An examination of the specifically sexual aspects of marriage reveals that the aggressors vs. adults and minors are more inclined toward protracted precoital play than any other groups—for 36 to 37 per cent of them foreplay lasted for an average of a half hour or more. The incest offenders vs. children rank third with 30 [...]

It has often been maintained that one of the parents’ obligations is the imparting of sex information to their children. This is an obligation that most parents would prefer to avoid, but no one is available to whom to transfer the task. Through timidity, a feeling of incompetence, and exaggerated response to small but vocal [...]

The exhibitionists were neither the youngest nor the eldest in the family, nor did they tend to be only children. In any such measurement they are intermediate. Between ages fourteen and seventeen they had a rather poor relationship with their fathers, being inferior in this respect to the control and prison groups and to most [...]