Dear Sioux Lady:
I will only refer you to the book I cited. I am not an expert (thank God!).
It boils down to this: Both male and female genitalia serve a purpose, exactly as does a heart, kidneys and a spleen. They function according to parameters. “Being terrorized” of course does not induce an erection. Say a man has not spent the entire evening with his lover (he is not sexually exhausted). He eats a healthy diet and stays in shape. He is abducted and held at point of a weapon. His genitals are stimulated. He is in a state of terror, and yet an erection WILL manifest. Continued stimulation results in ejaculation. Women who are raped are, of course, horrified at the experience, and yet their genitals will lubricate and orgasm is not unheard of.
It is an indelicate subject, and decent people are aghast at such information, but the human body is what it is.
Again, please read Peter Anderson’s book if you doubt it. Certainly, most people, like you and I, who are “brought up right” would have no such personal experience with these abominations of human depravity, but the truth is sometimes awkward.
Woman can, indeed, rape men. And if you think most women are reticent to report their rapes, consider how preposterously humiliated a man would be to walk into a police station and say he was raped by a woman.
I think it is very courageous of Dr. Helen to broach this topic, since Oprah and Dr. Phil haven’t the intestinal fortitude to do so.
