Chapter 4
WHAT IS FRIGIDITY?
Now that we have seen the real potential of woman, how
she can flower and blossom in the climate of love, what she
can be like when she embraces her true destiny, we may
turn to an examination of frigidity with some perspective.
This section will deal with what frigidity is, specifically, and
why it can and does occur in women, blighting their capacities,
stunting their personality, chilling and killing their
ability to love at the heart's deep core. When a woman gets
a clear picture of such matters, and only when she does, can
she find her way back to the highroad of real womanhood.
If we take the word "frigidity" in its most general sense it means, as I have already stated, an inability to enjoy sexual love to its fullest potentiality. This means, purely and simply, the inability to have an orgasm of the type described in Chapter 2. But the matter is more complicated than that, for there are degrees of frigidity, and I think it is very important to understand what this means.
Perhaps I can make this idea clearest by first describing the symptoms of a woman who came to see me several months ago. She was an example of total sexual frigidity.
