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he made Adam first and Eve from him in contravention of all biologi- cal rules which he supposedly originally set up.

But androgeny is NOT a theory of sexuality, old or new. It has very little to do with sexuality. Her assertion of that theme is only one cut above the old Freudian statement that "sex is destiny." It is only better because she advocates changes to achieve the androgenous state, while Freud's statement put a stamp of finality and inevitability on the existing condition. But to assert that to move toward androgeny would change sexuality is simply not to understand that sexuality is a different dimension of the cube of human function than that of gender. It makes me wonder if she knows the difference between and could adequately define hermaphrodite, bisexual, and androgyne.

But from personal life experience plus contact with a great many others who have transcended the culturally imposed barriers of gender I have a strong belief that we would all be better off, happier, more complete humans and more creative if we would break down those walls. Therapists in general and sex therapists in particular ought to be in the forefront of this struggle because the greater part of their case load doesn't come from people with problems between their legs-the majority of their problems are between their ears. Most of those derive from difficulties in self-identity, self-esteem, self- confidence, adequacy, security and the sets of requirements and expectations we lay on ourselves and others. Most of these are, in turn, related in some way to this dividing process we all went through in growing up. Women are recognizing that and fighting it. Men should be doing the same and therapists should be leaders and coordinators of that fight to storm the Bastille, not acting as guards or stoolies for the status quo trying to "adjust" the inmates to the system so that they can function semi happily as semi humans.

Let me conclude with a quotation from Theodore Roszack... "The woman most desperately in need of liberation is the "woman" every man has locked up in the dungeons of his own psyche. THAT is the basic act of oppression that still waits to be undone, though the undoing might well produce the most cataclysmic reinterpretation of the sexual roles and of sexual "normalcy" in all human history."

To which I can only add-this day and every day is Bastille Day. Let us storm the walls, open those dungeon doors and free the prisoners in your clients and in yourselves.

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