Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some doctors suspect that about three out of every four U.S. women are frigid, i.e., get no sexual satisfaction. In the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Gynecologist William S. Kroger of Chicago and Endocrinologist S. Charles Freed of San Francisco chide U.S. gynecologists for not paying more attention to the problem...
Combat & Clothes. In another classification of frigid women the doctors lump the 'gold-digger,' who is financially exploiting many sexual partners and husbands ... the prostitute ... and the nymphomaniac, the latter in search for satisfaction which is never achieved...
...Frigidity in women has received far too little attention from gynecologists, say Kroger and Freed, because "relatively few women present themselves . . . with the complaint of frigidity alone." But almost all married women see a gynecologist at one time or another in their lives, the doctors indicate, and the gynecologist should "attempt re-education and reassurance" of frigid women. "If these measures are ineffective, psychotherapy by a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst (preferably a man) should be recommended...
...city of Pilsen from the Germans. Two weeks ago the U.S. Embassy in Prague notified the Czechoslovak government of American intentions to hold a small ceremony in Pilsen in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the freeing of the city. From the Czech Foreign Ministry came a prompt and frigid reply: "In view of the fact that the Czechoslovak government is organizing the celebrations of the . . . liberation of the Republic ... it does not consider the celebrations by the American Embassy as desirable...
...Boston dowager once dismissed Frederic Christopher Dumaine, 84-year-old president and chairman of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., in a single frigid sentence: "Mr. Dumaine is the sort of person who spits in the fire." When he heard of the remark, improper Bostonian Dumaine turned to a friend, asked blandly: "Well, what the hell? Doesn't everybody...