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edited by Joseph Zubin and John Money (American Psychopathological Assoc. meeting), 468 pp, with illus, $15, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Natalie Shainess, MD, Reviewer
New York

JAMA. 1973;226(1):83.

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Contemporary Sexual Behavior, the proceedings of a symposium held by the American Psychopathological Association, is a rich and varied antipasto. It leaves the reader with the sensation of having had a satisfying meal, even though it is more researchand theory-oriented than its title implies, and it may be a bit disappointing to those expecting clinical help.

It is hard to do the book justice in a brief review, for the overall quality is high, and the only workable possibility is to single out a few chapters for comment. Gordon Jensen's chapter on the relation between human sexual behavior and that of primates is valuable because, while conveying much information, he is never guilty of assuming that each is a reasonable facsimile of the other. The chapter on woman's sexual arousal is somewhat disappointing because human arousal is so dependent on the social context that it does not easily lend itself . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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