Editing Coital alignment technique (section)

==History of studies==
The technique for coital alignment was first defined by American [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapist]] Edward Eichel,<ref name="Kar"/> and the original study was published by Eichel, De Simone Eichel, and Kule in 1988 in the ''[[Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy]].''<ref name="eichel 1988"/>

Since then, the topic has been studied several times in the same journal.<ref name="pierce 2000"/> A 1992 report by [[Helen Singer Kaplan|Kaplan]] and her sex therapist trainees described the team's cursory trial of the coital alignment technique (CAT), acknowledging that they may have resorted to old routines after only a few attempts out of fear of disappointing their partners.<ref name="kaplan 1992">{{cite journal |last1=Kaplan |first1=Helen Singer |author1-link=Helen Singer Kaplan |title=Does the CAT Technique Enhance Female Orgasm? |journal=Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy |date=December 1992 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=285–291 |doi=10.1080/00926239208412853 |pmid=1291699}}</ref>  Their call for other sex therapists to give the technique more rigorous testing instigated a series of controlled studies by Hurlbert and colleagues reporting statistically significant results in the treatment of female [[hypoactive sexual desire]].<ref name="hurlbert apt 1995">{{cite journal |last1=Hurlbert |first1=David Farley |last2=Apt |first2=Carol |title=The coital alignment technique and directed masturbation: A comparative study on female orgasm |journal=Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy |date=1 March 1995 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=21–29 |doi=10.1080/00926239508405968 |pmid=7608994}}</ref>

In 2005, Eichel asserted that "the three classic problems of sexual 'dysfunction' have been redefined as interdependent parts of ONE behavioral syndrome - the problems are NOT 'diseases'[…] [t]he 'cure' is a fundamental change in sexual technique". In his concluding paragraph, Eichel wrote that "[t]he CAT model provides a fundamental matrix for the analysis of classic sex problems and other subtle, but widespread, sex-related health problems."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eichel |first1=Edward W. |title=Coital alignment - The Bleeping Cure for FSD? |journal=[[The BMJ|BMJ]] |date=20 January 2005 |volume=330 |issue=7484 |pages=192–194 |doi=10.1136/bmj.330.7484.192 |pmid=15661785 |pmc=545000 |url=https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/coital-alignment-bleeping-cure-fsd |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>