So-called frigid women’s desire is actually aimed at the normative ideal.

Evidence

Besides, anything else will seem to confirm the woman’s failure to experience a normal woman’s feelings. Stekel notes, after many, many observations, that all the desire of so-called frigid women aims at the norm. “They want to reach orgasm like a normal woman; no other process satisfies them morally.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 988

Categorization

• DEFINE: Beauvoir inverts the clinical category of ‘frigidity’: it names a moral dissatisfaction with the norm, not an absence of sensation.
• XREF: connects to: Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352; Women’s economic dependence makes them define themselves through men’s desires. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 298

Broader Connections

• Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. #corroborates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352
• Women’s economic dependence makes them define themselves through men’s desires. #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 298