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De l'anaphrodisie à la frigidité : jalons pour une histoire
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Chaperon, Sylvie |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | During the 19th century, significant changes took place in the way frigidity was classified, as revealed by a review of a large body of medical work. Firstly considered to be a complaint affecting both sexes and linked to theories of humour and temperaments, frigidity was later differentiated from impotence, becoming a more specifically feminine condition, which was very common and primarily of psychological origin. In parallel with this process, ideas of the origin of female pleasure were changing. Having declared for years that the clitoris was the main organ of pleasure, doctors began to suggest that there were in fact two or three main erogenous areas. Sigmund Freud, who included this distinction in his description of psychosexual development and the Oedipus complex, was to dominate the understanding of female frigidity during the first half of the twentieth century, before several feminists and sexologists went back more than 100 years to reassert the key role of the clitoris. |
| Starting Page | 189 |
| Ending Page | 194 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.sexol.2007.05.003 |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aius.fr/v2/data/Newsletter/NL201206/frigidit%C3%A9%20ELSEVIER.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
