The Catholic Church taught the only acceptable reproductive control methods were abstinence and the rhythm method. In May 1978, adultery was eliminated as a criminal offense in Spain's penal code. Definitions of abandonment were also changed, as they were not consistent for both sexes with women previously only being able to claim abandonment if her husband forced his wife to support his mistress while they were living in the same house. On 7 October 1978, the law was changed to decriminalize the sale of contraceptives, along with information on how to use them. Women's sexuality said pleasure was not important and they had no right to it. Galician feminist Tensi Álvarez said of this, "It's very difficult, from the perspective of a young girl, to see what Francoism was. The woman had a little less than breeding function and satisfying male sexual needs. My generation was educated in obedience; we did not even have the right to orgasm or pleasure." Women who had pleasure during sex were often labeled whores and prostitutes, either in a real sense or in a metaphorical sense. The regime claimed that if a woman had an orgasm; it was an insult to her husband. Women who had orgasms were often told to go to church and confess this as a sin. Complutense University of Madrid rector José Botella Llusiá said, "There are many women, mothers of numerous children, who confess they have not noticed more than very rarely, and some have never noticed anything, sexual pleasure, and this however, does not frustrate them, because women, although they say otherwise , what she looks for in a man is motherhood ... I have come to think that the woman is physiologically frigid, and even the excitement of the libido in the woman is a masculine character, and that it is not the female women who have for the opposite sex a greater attraction, but on the contrary." A report published by José Antonio Valverde and Adolfo Abril said, "We can estimate female sexual dissatisfaction between 74% and 78%. This is very clear, that every hundred Spaniards with sexual activity usually within marriage, seventy-six do not find satisfaction; out of every hundred, seventy-six do not reach orgasm and, on many occasions, they have not even known it. "  The subject of female masturbation was taboo. Masturbation was a sexual aberration. Masturbation could manifest itself as a physical or mental illness. Father García Figar said of the effects of masturbation, "Organic malnutrition.