The nature and evolution of female sexuality (1972)
BOOK DESCRIPTION
What is the true nature of female sexuality? The noted psychiastrist, Mary Jane Sherfey (1918-1983), suggests the startling possibility that female sexuallty is literally an insatiable phusical drive that has been powerfulyl repressed for the sake of orderly human relations.
On the findings of Masters and Johnson and her own research, Dr, Sherfey proposes that "the more orgasms a woman has, the stronger they become: the more orgasms she has the nosre she can have." From her studies, of the sexuality of the higher primates, she argues that "somthing akin to the behavior of these primates, who perform coitus from twenty to to fifty times a day during periods of heat, could be paralleled by the human female," if her society permitted it.
In a major departure from conventional studies, Dr. Sherfey contends that the suppression of this powerful sexuality was a prerequisite for the establishment of civilized agrarian society, that until her primitive sexuality was forcibly repressed, archaic woman could not be socilaized, and civilized patters of behavior could not arise.
What Masters and Johnson did to clarify the physioological aspecta of the fenale orgasm, Dr. Sherfey has now done for the cultural and historical, as well as the psychological, aspects of this complicated process.
The results of years of research, Dr. Sherfey's extraordinary study has already provoked great attention within the psychiatric profession and has been compared, in its originality and insgight, to the discoveries of Freud with respect to sexuality itself.
Mary Jane Sherfey (6/1972). The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality. New York: Random House, Inc. First Edition. Hardcover. 188 pages. X figures. Format: 142x215mm. Weight: 419gr. ISBN-10: 0-396-46539-3
