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DISCUSSION: Dr. Charles Fisher noted that, in addition to the deficiencies in the understanding of psychoanalytic theory on the part of Masters and Johnson, Sherfey, et al., which limit the relevance of their arguments, there is increasing evidence that their physiological data may be inaccurate as well. Dr. Walter Stewart expressed his doubts about the author's evolutionary view of female orgasm in which the function of the female orgasm was seen as designed to bind the woman to the man who gives her this pleasure. Other factors were more influential in the formation of the family. In addition, he felt that the history of the degradation of women could not be understood only in terms of dynamics. Social injustices exist and need correction. When this occurs, there is little danger that men or women would still view the penis as a "toy."