Players: Cinderella and the Prince.
Activists: The husband may activate the game on his own, or husband and wife may activate it together.
Setting: Home.
Aim: Husband appeals to wife’s fantasy about meeting a prince who would discover that she is a princess.
Game Plan: One evening when he knows his wife “has no plans,” the husband arranges to [...]
Players: Hysterical wife and passive husband. Activist: Husband, with or without wife’s knowledge. Setting: Home or vacation retreat.
Aim: Help husband overcome need for wife’s approval by learning to assert himself; stimulate wife’s sexuality by appealing to her unconscious fantasy.
Game Plan: The couple can play this game together, or the husband can spring it on his [...]
Players: Passive spouse and “psycho” spouse. Activist: Aggressive spouse, without the knowledge or cooperation of passive spouse. Setting: Bathroom.
Aim: To enact the very fears that the passive spouse unconsciously harbors, and thereby shock him or her out of the passive mode.
Game Plan: This game is a more radical maneuver and thus entails more risk than [...]
In the bedroom, he begins to make love to her in the way that he knows she likes best. Usually wives have told their husbands over and over what they like, but bored (i.e., angry) husbands usually do not listen, since their wives’ sexual preferences sound like more complaints or demands.
All except the most hardened [...]
Likewise, social and organic diseases often have a psychological component that is somehow related to frustrated sexuality. Prisons hold individuals whose sexual drives have become twisted and whose aggressive drives have become stuck in the mode of trying to destroy the environment that has failed to meet their needs. Maladies such as cancer, heart disease, [...]
There are four barrier methods. All four are devices that are placed in the top of the vagina, in front of the cervix prior to intercourse. They work by acting as a barrier to prevent the sperm from passing through the cervix into the uterus.
The cap and diaphragm are circular [...]
Also called birth control pills and oral contraceptives, this method requires a woman to take a monthly series of pills that contain hormones like the ones naturally made in a woman’s body to control the menstrual cycle. This method works by preventing a woman from ovulating, by causing changes in her uterus so a fertilized [...]
Triplets (three babies), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven) and octuplets (eight) happen much less frequently than twins.
Once you start getting more than three babies at a time, the chances of all the babies surviving are lower. Because there are so many of them, they’re smaller than average [...]
If a woman has twins, do they both come out at the same time? Twins can happen in one of two ways: either there are two fertilized ova or there is one fertilized ovum that splits into two.
Usually a woman’s ovaries produce only one ripe ovum a month. Occasionally, though, [...]
Sometimes babies are born with physical problems or handicaps, such as blindness, brain damage, heart or lung problems or deformed limbs. Because these problems are present at birth they are called birth defects. They may be caused by defects in the ovum or sperm, problems inherited from the mother or father, the mother being exposed [...]
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