frigidity

"The help of such specialists is necessary if a person wants to recover from frigidity, impotence, or such violations of sexual behaviour as fetishism, masochism and sadism," the official newspaper of Russia's parliament said.

She set up a private practice and specialized in treating women afflicted with what she would call one of the “gravest problems of our time”: sexual frigidity.

What she would later call one of the “gravest problems of our times”? Carol, it was sexual frigidity, of course.

Sexual frigidity is “the inability to enjoy physical love to the limits of its potentiality.”

And she thought frigidity came from problems in childhood like having an absent father, or worse, a feminist mother.