It implies that Virginia responded differently to her sister than to her husband, and that Vanessa's letter to Leonard overemphasized Virginia's
frigidity in a jealous attempt to preserve their sexual bond.
They gain added weight through their use of the trope of "sexual
frigidity," which designates the actions of the woman in the story as pathological without making a nuanced account of her story necessary or, indeed, telling us what her perspective was at all (Jackson 110).
It never gets that much colder than about 50 degrees in Los Angeles, so to cope with the relative
frigidity of NYC, I wore five layers up top and pulled my socks to my knees under my jeans.
Old women from the countryside tout herbal cures for everything from
frigidity to erectile dysfunction and cancer, and claim that their healing craft extends well beyond traditional medicine.
The struggle to carry our sexuality without
frigidity and without irresponsibility, i.e., the struggle for a healthy sexuality, to be both chaste and passionate.
Of course, there is much to be said about Israel's own contribution to Arab
frigidity by invading Lebanon in 1982 when the ink on the peace treaty with Egypt was barely dry; by not making a sustained effort to solve the Palestinian issue; by the proliferation of settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and, until 2005, in Gaza; and by alienating Israel's internal Palestinian Arab community.
Grace's
frigidity, which the film emphasizes through her religious devotion, exaggerated decorum, and confining wardrobe, signals the narrative difficulties of a stagnant plot.
Leaving their children in the care of a nanny, each visited a psychiatrist, "my mother for her '
frigidity,' my father to come to terms with, if not change, his sexual nature'--information Honor learned decades later.
MacVaugh's
Frigidity: Analysis and Treatment and Albert Ellis' New Cures for
Frigidity.
Due to its remoteness and
frigidity, Alaska isn't a cheap place to live, but housing costs in exurban Wasilla are only 35 percent of what they are in San Francisco.
Howling winds and pelting sleet announce winter's harsh
frigidity, fit for only the hardiest of animals to be outdoors without shelter.