roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) (01/22/85)
The Ann Landers results brought immediately to mind an article I saw in last
Saturday's (1/12/85) Atlanta Journal/Constitution. I reproduce this UPI
article here without permission. It gives an interesting counterpoint to
the survey results.
Study: Female Sex Drive Drives Men to Therapy
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Women commonly exhibit a greater sex drive than men
and are dragging their husbands into therapy in growing numbers, a researcher
said Friday.
Dr. Joseph LoPiccolo, a professor of psychiatry at Texas A&M, credited the
women's movement with giving women the confidence in their own sexuality to
question their husbands' behavior rather than assume they are "oversexed."
During a study at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, LoPiccolo
said that of 100 therapy cases in 1973-74, 40 percent involved partners with
low sex drives.
Of that 40 percent, women accounted for 70 percent of the low sex drive
problem. By 1982, 60 percent of his cases involved low sex drives, and men
accounted for 60 percent of the problem.
"The greatest single finding is that a significant number of cases, contrary
to popular notion, is that the wife often has a higher interest in sex,"
LoPiccolo said in an interview before presenting his findings to a three-day
conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
Lopiccolo said that his study, conducted for the National Institute of
Mental Health, revealed that a low sex drive among men is far more common than
previously thought.
He added, however, that the number of cases has not necessarily increased
between 1972 and 1982 but that more patients are seeking therapy.
"What we are seeing is that women have been able to pressure men to get
therapy because sex is more acceptable for women," he said. "The women's
movement has made women comfortable enough with their sexuality to seek
therapy for men."
Lopiccolo's study also found that hormonal imbalances account for only 4
percent of cases of low sex drive in men. Psychological problems stemming
from domineering wives or a fear of intimacy account for a vast majority of
the problems.
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So what do you think? Are women really more comfortable with their sexuality?
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Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163
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