frigidity

• “According to the 2008 book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach, Marie first consulted Sigmund Freud for treatment of what she described as her frigidity, which was later described as a failure to have orgasms during missionary position intercourse.”

  Les téléclitoridiennes « Jahsonic

• “Blaming Genes: From the "Our Genes are Our Destiny" department comes a London survey that claims frigidity is genetic:”

  Archive 2005-06-01

• “The word frigidity means coldness, and when a woman has no desire for sexual relations or experiences no pleasure when she has sexual relations, she is said to be frigid.”

  Woman Her Sex and Love Life

• “Of the hot weather that you mention, we have [not] had in Derbyshire very much, and for myself I seldom feel heat, and suppose that my frigidity is the effect of my distemper; a supposition which naturally leads me to hope that a hotter climate may be useful.”

  Life Of Johnson

• “In Couples, however, it is ultimately the community that rots under the weight of accumulated fornication: wives go to therapy to understand their unhappiness aka, "frigidity" and one ultimately work up the courage to leave her husband.”

  Adultery Carnival: John Updike's Couples and the Sexual Revolution

• “The mildness of the climate seemed to have a tendency to melt away that frigidity which is a characteristic of people of the north, and the residents of the island were as frank, free, and hospitable as if they had never been out of the tropics.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “He was disturbed not only by the cocksureness of natural science and the narrowness of reality-aping art; even more, he was horrified by the dissolution of personality and the frigidity which issued from scepticism, by the desiccation of imagination and emotional life in a world which at best had faith only in a collective and automatic progression to the sacred land of”

  Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech

• “In earlier versions of the DSM, sexual dysfunction in women was simply labeled as "frigidity," but when William Masters and Virginia”

  The Daily Texan RSS Feed

• “Of women worried about "frigidity" and of their men, who worried about it even more.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Thinking Inside the Box

• “Clearly, a pedant's thoughts, which begin in learned trifling and end in frigidity.”

  Archive 2010-03-01

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