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The Power of Sexual Surrender

Chapter 34: TECHNICAL
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The work examines sexual frigidity in women as a clinical and relational problem, defining its symptoms and describing how inability to experience sexual pleasure affects intimate bonds. It traces psychological, developmental, anatomical, and sociocultural contributing factors, and presents case histories that illustrate total, partial, and psychic forms of the condition. Attention is given to therapeutic principles and practical steps toward recovery, emphasizing emotional openness, the dynamics of surrender in sexual intimacy, and the partner's supportive role. The aim is to inform lay readers, dispel myths, and offer accessible guidance for restoring sexual responsiveness and relational closeness.

ADDENDA II

There is no book that covers the problem of psychological frigidity in women as such. However, the books listed below may be helpful adjuncts to a thorough understanding of the problem. I have divided them into two categories, popular and technical.

The popular books can be understood by all. The technical books I list are generally used by physicians, but much in them can be understood by the intelligent layman.

POPULAR

The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm (New York: Harper, 1956).

A Marriage Manual, Hannah and Abraham Stone (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952).

Modern Woman—The Lost Sex, Lundberg and Farnham (New York: Harper, 1947).

Marriage, Morals and Sex in America, Sidney Ditzion (New York: Bookman Associates, 1953).

Psychology of Sex Relations, Theodor Reik (New York: Rinehart, 1945).

The Christian Interpretation of Sex, Otto Piper (New York: Scribner, 1941).

TECHNICAL

Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two Hundred Women, K. B. Davis (New York: Harper, 1929).

Female Sexuality, Marie Bonaparte (New York: International Universities Press, 1953).

The Psychology of Women (Vols. 1 and 2), Helene Deutsch (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1944-45).

Psychosexual Functions in Women, Therese Benedek (New York: Ronald Press, 1952).

 

 

 

Transcriber’s Note

A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected.

The cover image was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.