What John Money Thought About the ‘Sexological Ills’ of Pedophiles and Violent Men
On the subjectivity of diagnosis and treatment
Sex therapy resembles learning much more closely than it does the ordinary chemical or surgical treatment of disease. Finally, the results of treating sexual disorders, like their diagnosis, are subjective, resting largely on the subject’s self-assessment.
- Thomas Szasz, Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth About Today’s Sex Therapy (1980)
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