Given an astronomical rise in the divorce rate during the late 1960s, the concept of œmarriage counseling? rapidly entered the vernacular. While most marriage counselors basically practiced talk therapy, œsex therapists? on the other hand proposed to cure their patients inadequacies through hands-on sexual contact. Always looked upon a bit skeptically by mainstream America culture (werent these ˜therapists really just prostitutes?), sex therapy acquired a reputation as something of a questionable fad.