Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...
...didn't want to marry any of the young men I grew up with-not because of them but because of their life. I didn't know what I wanted. I was still floundering." Her friends sensed her feelings. "She had the reputation of being very frigid," says Jonathan Isham. "She was rather aloof and reserved, but everybody liked her, although she seemed to talk an awful lot about animals...
...Frigid Fluid Co. of Chicago advertises: "NEW! NEW! NEW! Lanol-Tex Arterial Fluid . . . Nature's Own Way to Soft Skin Texture," which "restores the same condition to the skin as during life." Boasts the Gold Crest Chemical Corp. of Wilmington, Del.: "Everybody is talking about Rubin-X Jaundice Dual Injection Fluids," which give "a gentle and fast-bleaching action with no spotting." If not satisfactory, "you may return to us for full credit after embalming your first case...
Back to Femininity. Frigidity often escapes diagnosis. Linden believes, either because the woman refuses to admit it-one of the factors that probably misled Kinsey-or because her physician shies away from "delicate" questions on the subject of sex. When the frigid woman does appear in a doctor's office, it is to complain of "vague physical or psychological ailments": headaches, fitful sleep, nervousness or nonspecific feelings of inadequacy. "The commonly prescribed treatment," says Dr. Linden, "consists of some tranquilizer or relaxant, supportive and complimentary reassurance, and periodic visits. The condition being treated usually does not change...
Fact is. no drug will cure frigidity, and no surgical operation will repair an unhappy marriage-although neurosis-knotted frigid women occasionally have persuaded doctors to perform pointless hysterectomies. Frigidity, says Dr. Linden, is not an illness in itself; it is simply a serious symptom of deep-rooted psychosexual conflict. Linden's stark conclusion: "The situation may be resolved if the woman patient can be restored to a truly feminine position. This would be the task of psychoanalysis. But even the most intense therapy may not be wholly successful, and many women must resign themselves to a less-than...