ABSTRACT
On the eve of the so-called sexual revolution, everyone knew that sex was different for men and women. Men wanted it, and women gave it. As Dr John Eichenlaub advised in his 1961 marriage manual: “a woman should never turn down her husband on appropriate occasions simply because she has no yearning of her own for sex or because she is tired or sleepy, or indeed for any reason short of a genuine disability.” Desire and pleasure, it would seem, were an optional part of the sexual script for women.1
