This book discuses the issues raised by sexuality and hysteria. It argues that sexual pleasure and orgasm are of course related but must also be differentiated one from the other; somewhat paradoxically, orgasm puts an end to the increase in sexual pleasure, setting a limit to it.

Freud spoke of the 'repudiation of femininity' as being an 'underlying bedrock', part of the 'enigma' of sexuality. The enigma is not so much the refusal of the feminine dimension as such; it has more to do with rejecting its erotic and genital aspects, as well as its creation through sexual ecstatic pleasure.