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Controversies, Methods, Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Sidney Crown  and
Patricia D'Ardenne
Sidney Crown
Affiliation:
The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB
Patricia D'Ardenne
Affiliation:
The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB
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Background

The terminology of sexual dysfunction is ugly enough in all conscience—erectile impotence, orgasmic dysfunction and so on—but it has served a useful purpose by bringing these problems into clear focus rather than burying them within the general vagueness of terms such as impotence and frigidity.

Type
Symposium on Sexual Dysfunction
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 70 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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