Superstition persists. In Britain there are still many old beliefs that had currency hundreds of years ago. Some of the popular newspaper and magazine advice columns are deluged with questions and worries revealing a superstitious orientation on sexual matters.

According to Marjorie Proops (in a letter to me, May 10, 1972, for which I am grateful) the commonest myths cropping up in correspondence from readers are:

• A man with a small penis is always sexually inadequate.
• Masturbation will cause hair to grow on palms of hands, make men impotent women frigid or sterile, cause madness, etc.
• Women who never reach a climax are always frustrated.
• Women with small breasts are poor risks in bed.
• Women with large breasts are always sexy.

Men, according to many wives, are perverted if they take girlie magazines, talk about erotic things during lovemaking, like oral sex, etc.