Are there examples of women becoming misogynistic doctors?
Oh sure. It’s very hard to step back and reject the values of the culture. I do not believe the assumption that there is some innate biological notion or characteristic sexuality that is true of men and women throughout all cultures — because we’re so culturally conditioned, because the attitude about what’s appropriate sexuality for a man or a woman is determined by the time we live in. If we stripped it all away, we would find sexuality is not just biological. It’s all those other things. It’s age. It’s religion. Time of day. Time of decade. All of that. What I did get out of this book very much was to recognize how sex has many meanings. As my students would say, “Sex is just sex.” Oh? Sex has many meanings, and it changes over time and over cultures. But when all is said and done, you uncovered numerous case studies where women were off their rockers and acting like “nymphomaniacs.” What I would say, and what I think most mainstream psychologists would say, is there is excessive b
