MAN AND SEX

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 12, 1961

Dr. Kaufman's ""guide to sexual literacy for men"" is directly concerned with the physical (as against moral, or personal) questions of a man's sex life and it is a bluntly, highly informative discussion, filled with many facts men may not and should know. Dr. Kaufman deals to an extent- if not emphatically-with affiliated psychosexual problems- and, in the more general introductory chapters, with the exaggerated idealization of sex today, with contradictory opinions on the gratification of the female (sex stimuli and frigidity in women), with the male's responsibility. More extensively he discusses problems of impotence (a ""state of mind"" or organic), masturbation, contraception, circumcision, the vasectomy, infertility, artificial insemination, hormones, hermaphrodites and the transsexual change, the male climacteric and process of aging. In the closing sections he deals specifically with the disorders and diseases of the male sexual organs. It is an excellent book with certainly a great many points (not only medical, but legal, historical, etc.) which have not been made available outside the consultation room and it is admirably explicit, direct and concise in its handling.

Pub Date: Jan. 12, 1961

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1961

Categories: NONFICTION