Abstract
The attempt to focus on ‘sexual dysfunction’ outside its psychological, social, and philosophical context is like trying to define a southern black man’s difficulties getting to the polling booth as a ‘walking dysfunction’ or perhaps like talking about a priest’s struggle with sexual continence as an ‘emission control’ problem.
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Breggin, P.R. (1987). Sex and Love: Sexual Dysfunction as a Spiritual Disorder. In: Shelp, E.E. (eds) Sexuality and Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3725-3_13
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