- Marie N. Robinson MD, a Cornell educated psychiatrist
devoted her New York City practice to the treatment of frigidity. Her book,
/The Power of Sexual Surrender/ (1958) is a revealing study of the feminine
psyche. It is out-of-print. Why? It is politically incorrect.
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- Dr. Robinson says that millions of American women suffer
from frigidity. While she explores many different causes, she notes that
/frigid women universally adopt the feminist view./ This view, that a career
as wife and mother is demeaning and men exploit woman, creates an "emotional
logjam" which obstructs sexual response and psychological development.
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- Dr. Robinson writes that a woman's identity lies in an
"essential feminine altruism."
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- Her self-expression and power is based on making her
husband and children her first priority. Similarly, her sexual satisfaction
and spiritual fecundity depend on self-surrender.
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- Robinson says men and women are different by nature.
Men are designed for mastery of the external (physical) world, and women
for mastery of the internal (spiritual) world and the home. These are not
social stereotypes, as feminists argue.
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- "Women are designed for duties different from those
of the marketplace, another kind of stress entirely," writes Robinson.
They "tend to lose their essential womanliness if they stay [in the
marketplace] by choice." (149)
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- IDENTITY CRISIS
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 According to Robinson, modern women suffer from an identity
crisis because they think they are no longer needed as women. Before the
industrial revolution, the home was the centre of all life and a woman
was its heart. She nursed and trained the children, prepared clothing and
food, and helped with farm tasks.
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- The industrial revolution seemed to make women obsolete.
Children were not needed and were even considered a liability. Everything
could be bought in stores. The home was empty. Children went to school,
husbands to work.
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- Woman's response was to turn against her own femininity.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a feminist manifesto /Vindication of the Rights
of Women/ (1792) that proclaimed women were identical to men, and promoted
maleness in women.
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- According to Robinson, "the feminist credo thoroughly
discredited feminine needs and characteristics and substituted male goals
for female goals."(53)
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- The other response to the industrial revolution was not
feminist, but "Victorian." Robinson says Victorian women took
"revenge" on men by denying women had any sexual feelings. They
"were amazingly successful in convincing men in general and even the
scientists of the day that frigidity was indeed a basic attribute of the
female." (54)
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- Thus, feminists and Victorian women both laid the foundations
for modern female neurosis.
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- "The depreciation of the goals of femininity, biological
and psychological, became part and parcel of the education of millions
of American girls. Homemaking, childbearing and rearing, cooking, the virtues
of patience, lovingness, giving ness in marriage, have been systematically
devalued. The life of male achievement has been substituted for the life
of female achievement." (55)
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- FEMININE SELF HATRED
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- The feminist-Victorian antagonism to men was handed down
from mother to daughter so that "to millions of women, hostility towards
the opposite sex seems almost a natural law. Although many a modern women
may pay lip service to the ideal of a passionate and productive marriage
to a man, /underneath she deeply resents her role, conceives of the male
as fundamentally hostile to her, as an exploiter of her. She wishes in
her deepest heart, and often without the slightest awareness of the fact,
to supplant him, to exchange roles with him/." (my emphasis, 56)
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- Robinson says that if feminism had brought women happiness,
the game might have been worth it.
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- "But it hasn't been. The game has brought frigidity
and restlessness and a soaring divorce rate, neurosis, homosexuality, juvenile
delinquency all that results when a woman in any society deserts her true
function." (56)
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- Dr. Robinson writes that once the emotional "log
jam" is removed, a woman's natural instincts will flow and health
will be restored. Essentially this involves "allowing herself to trust
her husband in a very deep sense. It means that she finally realizes that
she no longer has to fear or oppose his strength, but that she can rely
on it to protect her, to give her the secure climate necessary for the
full flowering of her femininity." (153)
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- For a profound vaginal orgasm, Robinson writes, "the
excitement comes from the act of surrender. There is a tremendous surging
physical ecstasy in the yielding itself, in the feeling of being the passive
instrument of another person..." (158)
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- On the other hand, the woman who mistrusts her husband's
love and as a consequence her own femininity has a "difficult, painful,
frenetic" approach to life. She is at war with herself. In bed, she
has to feel "in control all the time."
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- Robinson regards the clitoris as a masculine vestige
and implies that a woman may still be frigid even if she is sexually active
and mechanically adroit. Feminine sexuality depends on "absolute trust"
in a man, which allows a woman to fully receive and fully respond.
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- Dr. Robinson says there is nothing in life more important
than love. She believes marriage is the key to human development. The power
of love is felt in the world through this relationship.
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- "Love means, in its very deepest sense union; union
between individuals.../It is the most basic and profound urge we have and
its power for good is illimitable/... the lover partner becomes as important
as oneself...This fact is why real love never leads to domination or to
a struggle for power..." (129)
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- FEMINISM AS ELITE DEPOPULATION PROGRAM
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- The significance of /The Power of Sexual Surrender/ is
profound.
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- By coercing women to abandon their femininity and usurp
the male role, feminism throws a spanner in the natural heterosexual mechanism
of humanity. Millions of women are condemned to loneliness and unfulfillment.
Similarly, men are deprived of the role of protector and provider essential
to their development and fulfillment.
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- The triumph of such a manifestly wrongheaded ideology,
and the suppression of the truth, signifies that control in the world has
passed to a malignant force. As I have shown *in previous articles* <http://www.savethemales.ca/180302.html>
an amoral elite power fosters feminism as part of a long-term agenda to
dislodge western civilization from its religious and cultural moorings.
http://www.savethemales.ca/180302.html
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- Tax-exempt foundations, the elite media, the CIA and
the *Communist Party of the USA* are all behind the promotion of sexual
dysfunction in the guise of feminism. http://www.savethemales.ca/031001.html
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- The purpose is to destroy the nuclear family, decrease
population, stunt human development and destabilize society. We are a luxury
the super rich can no longer afford. Our government is part of this agenda
that aims to gradually create a materialist, totalitarian "New World
Order". Feminists who oppose the NWO are its unwitting agents. http://www.savethemales.ca/040902.html
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- CONCLUSION
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- I encourage feminine women to have careers if they want
as long as they are secondary to marriage and family. Naturally men and
women should be treated equally on the job.
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- Robinson's book confirms my thesis that heterosexual
marriage is based on the exchange of female worldly power for male love
(see C I. "How Heterosexuality Works.") http://www.savethemales.ca/archives-subject.html
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- I argue that woman wants love and man wants power. A
woman who seeks power will not receive love from a man. She cannot love.
This is the dilemma of feminists today.
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- As Marie N. Robinson confirms, woman loves by entrusting
her power to the /right/ man. He uses it to champion her interests. Thus
she both empowers him and channels male power in a socially constructive
direction. A woman's real power /is/ love, the power of self surrender.
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- Henry Makow,Ph.D, is the inventor of the board game Scruples,
and the author of *A Long Way to go for a Date* <http://alongwaytogoforadate.netfirms.com>.
His past articles exposing feminism and the new world order can be found
on his web site www.savethemales.ca. He welcomes your feedback and ideas
at *henry@savethemales.ca*
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- Comment
- From Bea Reardon
- 5-24-4
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- Makow writes "I argue that woman wants love and
man wants power. A woman who seeks power will not receive love from a man.
She cannot love." And I wonder, where does that leave men? Unable
to love?
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- In my reading of this recent article and others by Makow,
I see no real analysis of the divide between men and women caused or at
least used by the power elite to divide people who could be loving partners
and allies in the world; instead it appears feminists are blamed. I appreciate
so much of your content but would encourage you to give room for other
voices, men and women, who do not agree with Makow about the roles we should
live being based on our gender. (Note - Dr. Makow's articles ...especially
about gender...have always generated intense, sometimes vituperative comments
which we always post to his articles)
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- There are many expressions of human loving relationships,
including among many heterosexual couples, where love is allowing and supporting
our partner's individual potential within a bond of respect and commitment
to sorting through the conflicts of need and to living with our chosen
responsibilities to each other (and our children).
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- It is not necessary to have women surrender what she
may find to be deeply compelling in any arena of her life in order to experience
love, any more than it is necessary for a man to achieve power in order
to experience freedom from insecurity and self doubt.
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- I look forward to seeing other views in addition to Makow's
on these subjects.
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- Keep up your wonderful and needed work.
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- Thank you.
- Bea Reardon
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