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(Current Clinical Urology.) Edited by John J. Mulcahy. 397 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2001. $125. ISBN 0-89603-917-X.

"A man shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24) is the unambiguous biblical directive to married men: participate in and enjoy sexual intercourse. Those who could not do so were considered to lack power — to be "impotent" — a distinctly undesirable trait and a sign of weakness in a man, particularly a man considered to be a leader. Our forefathers knew this. When King David, the singer of psalms and slayer of Goliath, was dying, they called upon Abishag, a young Shunammite virgin, to attempt to restore his health. "And the damsel was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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