Human Sexual Inadequacy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In 1970, the research partnership of Masters and Johnson delivered a second seismic contribution to the scientific understanding of human sexuality — a work that moved beyond the laboratory to offer direct, clinical solutions to the intimate struggles that affect millions of couples worldwide. Human Sexual Inadequacy presents a rigorous, methodical study of sexual dysfunction in both men and women, cataloguing conditions such as premature ejaculation, erectile failure, and female orgasmic dysfunction, while detailing the groundbreaking therapeutic techniques developed at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis. The authors argue, with compelling empirical authority, that the vast majority of sexual inadequacy is rooted not in physiological defect but in psychological conditioning, performance anxiety, and failed communication between partners. Building on the landmark foundation of their earlier Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson establish a new clinical paradigm — the two-week intensive therapy program — that would fundamentally reshape the field of sex therapy for decades to come. Their prose is deliberately accessible, balancing scientific rigour with a compassionate understanding of human vulnerability, making this a text as relevant to clinicians as it is to the general reader. A document of both medical history and social progress, this work dismantled long-held taboos and invited an unprecedented candour into conversations about sexual health — leaving the reader to wonder just how profoundly our understanding of intimacy has, and has not, evolved since.
Author: William H. Masters & Virginia E. Johnson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In 1970, the research partnership of Masters and Johnson delivered a second seismic contribution to the scientific understanding of human sexuality — a work that moved beyond the laboratory to offer direct, clinical solutions to the intimate struggles that affect millions of couples worldwide. Human Sexual Inadequacy presents a rigorous, methodical study of sexual dysfunction in both men and women, cataloguing conditions such as premature ejaculation, erectile failure, and female orgasmic dysfunction, while detailing the groundbreaking therapeutic techniques developed at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis. The authors argue, with compelling empirical authority, that the vast majority of sexual inadequacy is rooted not in physiological defect but in psychological conditioning, performance anxiety, and failed communication between partners. Building on the landmark foundation of their earlier Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson establish a new clinical paradigm — the two-week intensive therapy program — that would fundamentally reshape the field of sex therapy for decades to come. Their prose is deliberately accessible, balancing scientific rigour with a compassionate understanding of human vulnerability, making this a text as relevant to clinicians as it is to the general reader. A document of both medical history and social progress, this work dismantled long-held taboos and invited an unprecedented candour into conversations about sexual health — leaving the reader to wonder just how profoundly our understanding of intimacy has, and has not, evolved since.