Volume 19, Number 9 · November 30, 1972
Anti-Climax
By Irving Singer
The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality
by Mary Jane Sherfey MD.
Random House, 182 pp., $5.95
The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy
by Seymour Fisher
Basic Books, 521 pp., $15.00
In these days of sexual politics it becomes necessary to separate the scientific study of female sexuality from its misuse by theorists who wish to establish strategic positions in the struggle between the sexes. For this reason, and because her ideas have already assumed importance within the women's liberation movement, one cannot ignore Mary Jane Sherfey's The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality.
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