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Women and Sex Therapy: Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge Women and Sex Therapy: Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge Ellen Cole, PhD Esther D. Rothblum, PhD Editors Women and Se.x Therapy: Closing 11,e Circle iJ/ Srx11al Knowledge was simultaneously issued by The Haworlh Press, Inc., under lhc 1i1lc: Women a11d Sex 171er11py and simuha ncously published as a special issue of lhc journal Wo111e11 & 111ernpy, Volume 7, Num bers 2/.l 1988, Ellen Cole and Es1hcr D. Ro1hblum, Edi1ors. Harrington Park Press New York • Lontlon ISBN 0-918393-54- X Published by Harrington Park Press, Inc., 12 West 32 Street, New York, New York 10001 EUROSPAN/llarrington, 3 Henrietta Street, London WC2E 8LU England llarrington Park Press, Inc., is a subsidiary of The Haworth Press, Inc., 12 West 32 Street, New York. New York 10001. Women cmd Scr 11,erapy: Clusi11g t/ie Circle of Sexual Knowledge was originally published as Women & Thcn1py, Volume 7, Numbers 2/3, 1988. © 1988 by Harrington Park Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be repro· duccd or u1ili1.cd in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm and recording, or by any infonnation storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from The Haworth Press, Inc., 12 West 32 Street, New York, New York 10001. Printed in the United States of America. Cover design by Marshall Andrews. Library of Congress Cataloglng-ln-Publlcallon Data Women nnd sex thero1>y. Includes bibliographical rcfcrcn~·es. " II.is also been published as Women & therapy, volume 7, numbers 2/J, 1988" - T.p. verso. I. Sex thcrnpy. 2. Feminist therapy. 3. Women- Sexual behavior. I. Cole, Ellen. II. Rothblum, Esther D. RC557.W65 1988 616.85'83'0088042 88-11068 ISDN 0-918393-54-X CONTENTS Preface XI Shere flite Introduction 1 Ellen Cole SECTION I: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES A Feminist Critique of the Sexual Dysfunction Nomenclature 5 Leonore Tie/er Propping Up the Phallocracy: A Feminist Critique of Sex Therapy and Research 23 Wendy Stock Women and Sexual Ecstasy: How Can Therapists Help? 43 Gina Ogden SECTION 11: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Sexual Socialization for Therapists: Applications for the Counseling/Psychotherapy of Women 57 Elizabeth Yarris Elizabeth Rice Allgeier The Theory of Sexual Relativity: Female Reality/Male Myth 77 Gale Holtz Golden Reporting Colleagues Who Are Sexually Intimate with Clients: It's Time to Talk 87 Margery M. Noel "Nice Women" Don't Say Yes and "Real Men" Don't Say No: How Miscomrnunication and the Double Standard Can Cause Sexual Problems 95 Charlene L. Muehlenhard SECTION 111: PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND ISSUES Sexual Difficulties Experienced by Women with Interstitial Cystitis 109 Nao,ni B. McC011nick Robe,1 K. Vinson Disorders of Desire: Women, Sex, and Food 121 Nechan,a Liss-Levinson lntin1acy and the New Reproductive Options 131 Sandra R. Leib/iun When Abortion Is a Blessing 145 Lynn Leight Sex at Menopause: Each in Her Own Way J5 9 Ellen Cole Teaching Safe Sex to Women in the Age of AIDS 169 · Deborah K11tzko When the Diagnosis Is Vaginismus: Fighting Misconceptions 175 Jo Marie Kessler SECTION IV: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR PARTICULAR POPULATIONS Issues in Sex Therapy with Ethnic and Racial Minority Women 187 Carole Pigler Christensen Lesbian Sexuality in the Framework of Psychotherapy: A Practical Model for the Lesbian Therapist 207 S11sa11 Ha,nadock Research on the Sex Practices of 1566 Lesbians and the Clinical Applications 221 J0At111 Lou/an Bisexuality in Women: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Therapy 235 Margaret Nichols Issues in Sex Therapy with Survivors of lntrafa mity Sexual Abuse 253 Linda J. Weiner Divorced Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Issues 265 Nonna J. Leslie Women, Sexuality, and Disabilities 277 Sandra S. Cole EPILOGUE Tensions, Dilemmas and Possibilities for Understanding Women's Sexuality 295 Denise Webster