To us men, sex is sex. We want it, let’s do it, we’re done. For many women it isn’t always that simple. You need to be in tune with her emotionally if you want to make her more receptive sexually. (Stephan Labossiere)
This view—that female sexual arousal is especially tied to emotions—comes directly from psychoanalysis. Freud argued that instincts are never xperienced directly but only through their psychical representatives, meaning emotions and ideas. On this basis, he described women’s sexual development (such as the shift from clitoral to vaginal pleasure) as bound up with feelings like jealousy, attachment, and shame, and suggested that being admired or desired could itself be a source of arousal.
But this perspective was strongly criticized: Karen Horney argued that Freud interpreted femininity from a male-centered point of view and exaggerated women’s dependence on emotion in sexuality. Melanie Klein saw emotional and sexual development as far more complex than Freud allowed and criticized his oversimplifications. Simone de Beauvoir, in The Second Sex, wrote that this way of thinking reproduces patriarchal culture by reducing women to “emotional beings.” empirical sex research by Masters and Johnson showed that women’s arousal, like men’s, depends directly on physiological stimulation and not necessarily on emotional pathways. Thus, while Freud introduced the idea that emotion and sexuality are deeply intertwined, many later thinkers criticized this as biased, limiting, or scientifically unfounded.
The soul is a religious concept. We are talking about sexual response, which occurs when the brain responds to erotic stimuli. The male brain naturally responds but the female brain responds to many fewer erotic stimuli. Hence why female orgasm is rare.