Download or read book Frigidity written by P. Cryle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers.