Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy

SUMMARY No formulaic feminist sex therapy can do justice to the diversity of women's sexual problems and goals. We can start, however, by abandoning biological reductionism as enshrined in the DSM while at the same time offering every woman an opportunity for a thorough, educational, physical consultation. Feminist sex therapy must encompass two domains of insight and skill. The first, for everyone, includes Feminism 101, corrective genital physiology education, assertiveness training, body image reclamation, and masturbation education. The second, working towards a better world, rejects sexual drive in favor of contact comfort, mental masturbation, new categories of gender, and an understanding of sexual talent.