The Playboy Forum

February, 1976

Teaching Women to MasturbateThe letter titled "Masturbators' Manual" (The Playboy Forum, October) states that a clinic in Manhattan taught women how to masturbate, "prompting a cynical friend to claim that here at least was definite proof of a difference in intelligence between the sexes." May I remind whoever wrote this that female genitalia are a trifle more complex than a simple dick and balls? Without going into an elaborate exposition on the historical taboos against wom...