If the reactions between the patient and the doctor are to be studied as a way of illuminating the patient’s problem, it is necessary for the doctor to be aware of his or her normal doctoring style. It is then possible to recognize changes from this norm, and to think about what it is in [...]
Marital therapists, or couple therapists, work with the couple on the relationship between them. Referral for marital therapy will be more effective when there is agreement between the couple that changes in the relationship are required. Specific training in sexual difficulties is taken by selected therapists who work for Relate Marriage Guidance, or facilities may [...]
Patients in the older group may have anxieties about whether they should be still sexually active and hide their requests for advice about contraception behind other complaints such as vaginal soreness or period problems in the same way as those just beginning their sexual life. They may need to try out a different doctor from [...]
Serious marital or sexual problems are unlikely to be improved by sterilization of either partner, and one of the most important tasks of the pre-sterilization consultation is to identify the hopes and expectations of the couple. Not infrequently the man may hope that it will make his wife more interested in sex. One man blamed [...]
This chapter is written from the point of view of doctors working in Britain with patients from other cultures, rather than about doctors who work abroad. This author’s experience as a general practitioner working with recent immigrants in Tower Hamlets, a deprived inner city area of London, will illustrate the most obvious problems of cultural [...]
One of the interesting aspects of this study is the offender’s impression of how his parents got along together when he was in his mid-teens. There proved to be a strong tendency for the parents of the incidental offenders to have gotten along better with one another than the parents of the patterned offenders.
In spite [...]
Most sex-offender groups have fewer members with juvenile records than has the prison group, and their offenses are generally less serious. Few committed juvenile sex offenses, but for these few the offenses are fairly predictive for their adult offense behavior.
The sex offenders in general become involved with the law later than the members of the [...]
While coitus and orgasm are for all practical purposes synonymous in the male, the two must be considered separately in the female. Since we were able to interview only a few of the wives of the men in this study, we have necessarily relied upon the man’s report on his wife’s orgasmic response. We are [...]
In criminological studies there has been a fair amount of discussion of the significance of specific physical characteristics and their relevance to criminal behavior. While little of this literature is explicitly directed toward the sex offender, there has been this long-term tradition, which is in much disrepute among behaviorally oriented criminologists, and which demands some [...]
Only a moderate number had premarital coitus by any given age, the percentages usually being only slightly more than those of the control group. Similarly the age-specific incidence figures are moderate: between ages sixteen and thirty-five some 62 to 73 per cent of the bachelor exhibitionists were having premarital coitus with companions.
The exhibitionists had the [...]