Despite a good deal of folklore and mythology our real understanding of a person’s response to sexual arousal is new. As sex is ’such a delicate matter’ in the minds of many people, including scientists, the investigation of the reactions of men and women to sexual arousal and to sexual intercourse has only been made recently. Dr William H. Masters and Dr Virginia Johnson were pioneers in this research. They were able to recruit volunteers to find out what happens when a person is stimulated sexually. In the course of this research they discovered that many beliefs about human sexuality had no substance – they were myths.
The first of these myths relates to the male sex drive – that is, the urge of a man to initiate a sexual relationship. It has been believed that the average man had a stronger, more urgent sex drive than the average woman. In sexual matters he was the initiator, the aggressor, while the woman was the relatively passive recipient. This is nonsense. It is now known that the sex drive of men and women is essentially similar.
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