Chapter 5
THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
When one contrasts the normal woman with the frigid
woman, certain questions come to mind at once. Why, for
example, do certain women become frigid? Have millions
of women always been this way, or is it a problem of our
times only? Why, if not being frigid is so pleasant, do some
women hold onto this problem though they know they can
get help for it?
To answer these questions in part or in whole, you will first have to know a little history. For, though every case of frigidity represents a psychological problem in the individual, we have found that, sociologically speaking, frigidity is rooted in certain destructive events that have occurred to woman in the past two hundred years. If you grasp them you will begin to get a picture of the over-all problem that has beset woman, of how she lost her direction, her sense of self, and what she must do to find them again.
The history I am going to tell you about is the history of a war, a bitter and destructive war. It is often called "The War between Men and Women." For far too many women and men too—it is still going on.
