Maria Pavlova, Part 1
It is my hope, as interim editor of JISSIHM, that the tale that this interview tells will serve a cautionary purpose for the psychological community, especially for the growing community of women researchers interested in the the sexuality of the human male, as represented by ISSIHM.
We must always place ethics above considerations of scientific advancements and prestige. And we must never let ourselves succumb to the temptation to take advantage of the men who agree to become our experimental subjects. This is especially important as we know from results, published right here in JISSIHM, that heterosexual adult males are very susceptible to suggestion (by women who know the proper techniques -- see the special issue in volume 2 of JISSIHM).
Every scientific laboratory, hospital, and university has a review board that is charged with protecting our experimental subjects. However, if the subject is our boyfriend or husband, then there is no check on our experimental procedures except our own ethics, and that is why I believe that this interview is so important to publish.