The Alchemy of Love and Lust
Crenshaw has her own clinic concerned primarily with sexual diseases and conditions. She has experienced some of these problems personally, for she has had a bilateral mastectomy. Experience with her large clientele further enables her to speak authoritatively. Hormones and related substances, she maintains, should be recognized, respected, and understood by all patients and physicians, so she introduces each of these vital elements, shows how they work or go off track, and urges anyone who has a sexual problem to seek professional help rather than suffer or cause a partner's suffering. She fully explores possible psychological hang-ups and the advantages and disadvantages of aging relative to sexual health. She cleverly combines patient vignettes with up-to-date scientific information and avoids no methods for improving sex and life. "It's not the ratio of our hormones," she asserts, "as much as how we treat each other" that counts.William Beatty