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Venus After Forty: Sexual Myths, Men's Fantasies and Truths About Middle-Aged Women by Rita M. Ransohoff Ph.D.

A clinical psychologist details causes for ""the double-standard on aging"" and the deleterious effects it has on both sexes--particularly women. Ransohoff also reveals how male rejection of middle-aged women is reflected in mythology and how it permeates our culture through literature, the media, advertising, and sexist jokes. An infant, Ransohoff says, has ""a double image"" of the mother. Before 18 months, it ""cannot grasp the idea that the image of the loving and giving mother comes from the same person who gets angry and frustrates him."" As a young boy struggles to separate himself from his mother and achieve autonomy, he may fantasize that her ""evil"" persona will encompass him in her ***** or (because she lacks a *****) may castrate him. In middle age, with sexual drive and proficiency slowly ebbing, many men experience a subtle resurfacing of these fantasies.

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