NOT A CURE FOR SEXUAL PROBLEMS – SEXUALITY WITHOUT FERTILITY
In time, this woman recognized her own anger and the presence of deep and unresolved conflicts in her marriage, and she began to work on the situation. Her hope that a vasectomy for her husband would somehow make her more sexually responsive had been in vain, and it might have been easier for her to deal with her angry feelings if she could have been helped to recognize them earlier.
Some people have great difficulty in allowing themselves to be fully sexual when there is no chance of becoming pregnant. There was clearly an element of such a problem in the case described above, where the patient found sex more exciting when there was a risk of pregnancy. Although her anger at her husband’s infidelity was important, it is interesting that she herself wanted to see if she could respond with a fertile man.
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