title: Physical damage caused by sexual deprivation in girls.
abstract: In parts of Europe and in the Americas there are still many girls who are prevented by cultural forces from acquiring sexual experience until they are six years or so past puberty. This period of sexual deprivation probably causes physical as well as functional damage. The functional damage was documented by Kinsey more than twenty years ago, but almost no one seems to be aware of it. The physical damage seems likely as the basis for the functional damage and also as the inevitable result of sensory deprivation as revealed by extensive studies of other sensory systems.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003075:Coitus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009948:Orgasm / Q000502:physiology; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology*