Penis envy

:For the Crass album, see Penis Envy (album).

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Crass - Penis Envy (album)

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Penis envy is the desire to possess the same sexual organ (a penis) as men, which Sigmund Freud believed women unconsciously possess.

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Penis - Sigmund Freud

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Freud's teaching that women suffer from penis envy is generally attributed to the Victorian assertion that male sex organs are better than those of females. While fashionable for a number of decades, this idea is no longer regarded as a serious psychological concept except by fundamentalist Freudians.

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Women - Victorian - Sex organ

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Freud believed that women envy penises because it makes the man the active member in sexual intercourse, and is an external organ.

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Evolutionary psychology does support this claim and suggests that on an unconscious level, females are aware that parental investment will primarily go towards males, due to their higher levels of sexual fitness and ability to produce more offspring. The female is envious of the male sibling for possessing a penis and desires to have a penis to secure more resources from the parents. There is no evidence for these predictions yet.

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Evolutionary psychology - Sexual fitness

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