Book · 2020 · Biography & Autobiography
The Love Surgeon
A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
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James Bert began to develop his own theories about human vaginas and sexual responsiveness from a book titled The Love Surgeon by Sarah Rodriguez.
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The best things said about it
Significant details about it exist, both thanks to the book The Love Surgeon and from a story in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, also written by Sarah Rodriguez.
The misogyny dripping from this book is particularly clear when Dr. Bert writes about his fourth wife Joan from The Love Surgeon.
Eventually, when the pain got so bad that she couldn't stand it anymore, she booked an appointment with gynecologist with a gynecologist named Michael Clark from the love surgeon.
From the love surgeon, quote, rumors of Joan and James Bert's debts began to be more than speculation. In late September 1980, a local art gallery sued the couple.
According to Bert, he had not informed any of these women, the women he'd done surgery on, that he had done anything other than a standard aesiottomy repair.
Doctors understood the sexual nature of the clitoris and its importance to female sexual pleasure, and thus some blamed the clitoris for a woman's failure to orgasm with her husband.
Why people recommend it
The Love Surgeon by Sarah B. Rodriguez is a biographical and medical history text that examines the controversial surgical practices and personal life of Dr. James Bert. The book documents how the doctor performed unauthorized and altered gynecological procedures on unsuspecting women under the guise of standard operations. Robert Evans explored the book in detail across a two-part episode of Behind the Bastards in April 2021. Evans cited Rodriguez's work as a primary source for understanding Dr. Bert's theories on female sexuality and his admission to patients that he had performed procedures other than standard repairs. The host utilized the book to describe the severe physical pain experienced by patients like Janet Phillips, who sought help from other physicians after undergoing Bert's surgeries. Furthermore, Evans read from the text to highlight the pervasive misogyny surrounding the doctor's accounts of his fourth wife, Joan, and detailed the couple's mounting financial troubles and social behavior at medical society dinners based on recollections included in the study. Evans also noted that Sarah Rodriguez expanded on these findings in a separate article published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
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Robert Evans significant details about it exist, both thanks to the book The Love Surgeon and from a story in the Archiv… 8
“significant details about it exist, both thanks to the book The Love Surgeon and from a story in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, also written by Sarah Rodriguez”
“So, the misogyny dripping from this book is particularly clear when Dr. Bert writes about his fourth wife Joan from the love surgeon.”
“Eventually, when the pain got so bad that she couldn't stand it anymore, she booked an appointment with gynecologist with a gynecologist named Michael Clark from the love surgeon.”
“From the love surgeon, quote, rumors of Joan and James Bert's debts began to be more than speculation. In late September 1980, a local art gallery sued the couple”
“James Bert began to develop his own theories about human vaginas and sexual responsiveness from a book titled The Love Surgeon by Sarah Rodriguez.”
“And I'm going to quote again from the love surgeon here. According to Bert, he had not informed any of these women, the women he'd done surgery on, that he had done anything other than a standard aesiottomy repair.”
“Sarah Rodriguez writes, quote, "Partly this was because of the manner in which the Berts behaved at such dinners. Both Walter Reeling and his wife Susie Reeling recollected how Joan Bert decked out in furs would be physically all over her husband during medical society dinners talking a lot and bragging about how many orgasms she enjoyed.”
“From the love surgeon, quote, "Doctors understood the sexual nature of the clitoris and its importance to female sexual pleasure, and thus some blamed the clitoris for a woman's failure to orgasm with her husband. The removal of the clitoral hood was an attempt to fix this concern.”
