The Problem of Sex Today
NATALIE SHAINESS M.D.1
1 Member of the faculty, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. Her address is 140 East 83rd Street, New York, N. Y. 10028
Sexual problems, especially problems of sexual inadequacy, persist in spite of the current presumed sexual freedom. The author relates this to certain unfortunate aspects of our culture and particularly to increasing alienation and mechanization. She offers a critique of the Masters-Johnson sexual studies, feeling that these researchers have overextended the physiologic aspects of sexual response to cover the entire realm of sexuality. She concludes: We must reaffirm the fundamental connection between human relatedness and physiological sex.
