THE SATANIZING OF WOMAN

by Demosthenes Savramis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 15, 1973

This is a long repetitious tirade against the institutionalized Church, both Catholic and Protestant, for its alleged role in perpetrating the dualism between body and soul which the author holds accountable for the unhealthy attitude of western society towards sex. Via comparisons with various so-called primitive cultures, the citing of a few well-known spectacular instances of witchcraft inquisitions, plus a touch of Women's Lib and a rather larger dose of '60's-type sexual revolution proselytizing (in which heterosexual coition in its cornucopia of positions becomes the summa cum laude of interpersonal activity), the author makes the reader question assumptions so generally accepted they are academic. Even more irritating are his didactic proofs of the obvious, to the point of citing African anecdotes to document the apparently still-disputable (to this author) proposition that women actually have sexual needs (!). His footnotes seem included for their quantity (which is excessive) rather than their usefulness (which approaches nil); somehow it is not surprising that this book is translated (ably enough, by Martin Ebon) from the German.

Pub Date: Feb. 15, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1973

Categories: NONFICTION