ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the two areas of study may be related in the earliest period of life and turns to the question why most of the perversions are practiced by men, not women. The development of women, from infancy on, is certainly full of trauma, frustration, anxiety, and conflict. The state of the art of psychoanalytic explanation these days is adequate to explain why women are as perverse as men, but it does not have available an argument why they are not. Although the psychoanalyst rarely has the chance to observe it, there can be too much of a good thing. The authors spend most of the time of their practice and theory struggling with the effects of trauma, frustration, and deprivation. Masculinity in males, according to Freud, comes from three main sources: biological factors, primary heterosexuality starting as soon after birth as the process of comprehension begins, and identification with father’s masculinity as the oedipal conflict is resolved.
