Chapter 17
SEXUAL SURRENDER
The ability to achieve normal orgasm can be called the
physical counterpart of psychological surrender. In most
cases of true frigidity it follows on a woman's surrender of her
rebellious and infantile attitudes as the day the night. It is
the sign that she has given up the last vestige of resistance
to her nature and has embraced womanhood with soul and
body.
The achievement of orgasm, usually, is the last step in the process of growing up. If one reviews in one's mind the actual orgastic experience it is not difficult to see why this is so.
For a woman orgasm requires a trust in one's partner that is absolute. Recall for a moment that the physical experience is often so profound that it entails the loss of consciousness for a period of time. As we know, in sexual intercourse, as in life, man is the actor, woman the passive one, the receiver, the acted upon. Giving oneself up in this passive manner to another human being, making oneself his willing partner to such seismic physical experiences, means one must have complete faith in the other person. In the sexual em-
