Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:967-969
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Critique of a hypothesis of dominance and sexual behavior
RC Friedman
The author critically evaluates the article "Dominance and Sexual Behavior:
A Hypothesis," which appeared in this journal last year and hypothesized
that "male dominance facilitates male-female copulatory behavior while
female dominance inhibits it." He concludes that such unitary-cause
hypotheses of complex behaviors may be reductionistic and therefore less
helpful than intended.