Inez By Dr. Tolman Summary

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After interviewing the girls one on one this is the results that Dr. Tolman received. Let’s go back to the topic of sexual desire and look at one of the first participants a girl named Inez who came from an urban school, was seventeen years old and. Now Inez was one of the few who was open to answering Tolman’s questions. When describing her first time having sex she described it as being consensual nonetheless she quoted it as “just happening”. Notably, Inez was not the only girl who described her first experience as just happening but, many other girls had very similar experiences. It was always the male who took initiation rather than the female. Typically women don’t expect or suppress their sexual desires unless their male counterpart

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