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Aside from their wider social application, the terms “machismo” and “male chauvinism” currently express the age-old notion that, in sexual matters, man proposes and woman reposes. Nevertheless, as with so many other ideas, ideals, and values, there is often a gap etween what we say should happen and what actually occurs—overtly or covertly.
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Maslow, A. H. 1970. Motivation and Personality, second edition, pp. 189–190. New York: Harper and Row. By permission of the publisher.
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DeMartino, M.F. (1974). Sexual Activity: Initiation and Participation. In: Sex and the Intelligent Women. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39430-4_3
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