Of course once he (Freud) had laid down this definition of our sexuality, Freud not so strangely discovered a tremendous ‘problem’ of ‘frigidity’ in women. (Shere Hite)
That intercourse does nothing for a woman is a very old-fashion idea. here are women that can add to research on female sexuality from a feministic viewpoint. E.g. Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden. Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir and Camille Paglia, were particularly influential on this topic, although their views were not universally or placidly accepted. Toward the end of the 20th century the most significant European contributions to understanding female sexuality came from psychoanalytical French feminism, with the work of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva.
The study of sexual dysfunction has moved on a lot in the century since Freud's essays on sexuality – which are still a fascinating and sometimes funny read – Freud had a delightful sense of humour that never comes across in the stereotypes.
ishA more nuanced approach categorises female sexual dysfunction under the headings of interest and desire, arousal, orgasm, and dyspareunia and vaginismus. While these are useful headers, they clearly are interlinked, so you would expect them to co-occur rather than be distinct entities. The headings for men are similar-ish.
A recent review that might be of interest :
https://academic.oup.com/jsm/article-abstract/13/2/144/6940252
In passing, I'd note that Freud bashing is common among people who have read somebody writing about Freud, rather than among people who have read his work. He left a body of ideas, but more importantly an important body of questions. If you consider that he published six book-length case histories every one of which documented one of his failures, it seems clear that Freud did not consider that he had all the answers!
Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is still defined in terms of a woman's ability to orgasm through intercourse, which is clearly impossible. In fact, most of the modern day so-called dysfunctions are due to a mismatch between expectations and reality rather than any true dysfunction. Erotic fiction sets our expectations at an unrealistic level and then we are sure to be disappointed with the reality we have to live with. Sad... but true.
Please note that I like to work with the research findings. There are no research findings that indicate that women regularly orgasm through any activity with a lover. I am challenging porno orgasms (those portrayed in erotic fiction) because they are nonsensical. No one can orgasm from stimulation that they do not control. Stimulation needs to continue up until orgasm and preferably not beyond. Women provide an orifice for men to ejaculate into. This has nothing to do with achieving orgasm themselves but is about the emotional sensations that make women amenable to pleasing men. Women never comment on eroticism or sexual pleasure - both are purely male domains. Until women are willing to explain the erotic turn-ons, the stimulation technique and the specific anatomy involved in the orgasms they are claiming, the discussion remains in the realms of erotic fiction. Porno orgasms involve different female anatomy because men stimulate the parts of a woman's body that interest them. Few men offer any foreplay. Women never insist on it. Sex focuses naturally on male sexual needs.
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