Note AZ — Chapter XVI · ANAESTHESIA (continued 2)

The word frigidity is used by the best writers in an ambiguous sense. Both, impotence of voluptas and impotence of libido, are designated by frigidity, especially by the lay-writers. By right only the woman suffering from impotence of voluptas is really cold and frigid. She is the one who does not care for the other sex at all. The patient suffering from impotence of libido is not at all cold or frigid toward the other sex. On the contrary, she is very passionate, but she has no use for coition because it does not bring her satisfaction. She is only anaesthetic for a certain kind of stimuli, i. e., coition.