Status Updates From Human Sexual Inadequacy

"The decision was made to discuss Mr. C's pas homosexual experiences openly...Mrs. C accepted the situation with equanimity...How she will react when her son grows into adolescence and she recalls her husband's penchant for homosexual relations with young boys is yet another matter" (380). That...that's not homosexuality, guys. That's pedophilia.

"This woman might have been salvaged as an effective human being and the marriage constituted on a secure basis had Foundation personnel taken a more positive attitude" (379). Because she's not a human being otherwise?

"Premature ejaculation as a sexual dysfunction should and can be brought fully under control in our culture during the next decade. There remains only to establish an effective post-graduate training program to provide such a result" (359). Masters or doctoral program?

"There are only two basic needs for regularity of sexual expression in 70-80-year-old women. These necessities are a reasonably good state of general health and an interested and interesting partner" (350). Everyone has to be interesting!

"...sex-steroid replacement frequently is indicated in order to enable most women to continue to function effectively as interested and interesting sexual partners" (342).

"The vagina is a potential rather than an actual space" (336). Masters and Johnson venture into strangely philosophical territory?

"The natural aging process creates a number of specific physiological changes in the male cycle of sexual response. Knowledge of these cycle variations has not been widely disseminated...From a psychosexual point of view, the male over age 50 has to contend with one of the great fallacies of our culture" (316). So many great, yet (probably) unintentional, puns.

"...for beyond the influence of fortunate variations in reproductive anatomy and their individual patterns of physiological function the sexes are basically similar, not different" (215). Fortunate, indeed.

"The la k of communication that starts in the bedroom rapidly spreads through all facets of marital exchange: children, finances, social orientation, mothers-in-law, whatever" (168).

"There are a number of theoretical factors, and a combination of psychological, circumstantial, environmental, physiological, or even iatrogenic factors that can raise the specter of the fear of performance in the always susceptible mind of the male in our culture, be he 14 or 84 years of age" (160).