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Author(s) -
Lebanese American University
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.571
Subject(s) - feeling , pleasure , psychology , anxiety , element (criminal law) , relaxation (psychology) , social psychology , sexual intercourse , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , sociology , law , political science , psychiatry , population , demography
" ... a woman is deprived of her genitals and denied the most basic element of life. Her life becomes one complex on top of another ... Denying a woman the ability to share the pleasure makes her more negative. Denying her relaxation of nerves which accompanies proper sexual intercourse creates in her feelings of great anxiety and loss. In turn, such ... feelings ... give rise to psychological, physical and sexual disorders. An inferiority complex ... apd an awareness that the man is the dominant master, ... gradually cancel her role in society.