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This essay on the effects of modern effective contraception on psychological and sexual behavior concentrates on the characteristis of French society. Contraception is obviously a weapon against multiple illegal abortons, and a means for professional, social and sexual liberation of women. For physicians it provides a medium of interacting for the first time with the sexual life of patients, sometimes resulting in spectacular cures of psychosomatic disorders such as pelvic pain, menometrorrhagia, depression and anxiety. The opportunity for more frequent sexual relations, free of fear of pregnancy, may permit the release of orgasm and an experience of new sensation, authenticity and confidence for the woman. But contraception may also reveal or aggravate sexual dysfunction and participate in the deterioration of sexual adjustment. The physician must be aware of patients' prior psychosexual situation in order not to make contraception a scapegoat for so-called pill or IUD side effects. This requires sound medical training and a good doctor-patient relationship. For many young women maternity is the sign of womanhood, and for mature women and their partners, fertility is the essence of feminine attraction. This unconscious belief is often the basis for forgetting pills, frigidity, impotence and masochistic pregnancy. Children are unconsciously the bridge toward immortality.
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