In the past, the socio cultural requisite that the female dissemble her sexual feelings did not lessen general interest in female sexuality. The nature of female sexual response has been interpreted in numerable times, with each interpretation proposing a different concept or variation on a concept.

Interestingly, more than ninety five percent of these interpretive efforts have been initiated by men, either from the defensive point of view of personal masculine bias or from a well intentioned and often significant scientific position, but, because of cultural bias, without opportunity to obtain unprejudiced material.

Woman sexual behavior: Numbers of women combining research expertise with their own firsthand awareness of female sexual behavior have been disadvantaged by cultural limitations on scientific investigation of human sexual response.

Conceptually these women also have shared cultural bias with their male professional peers.

Even though definitive research findings have emerged in the field of sexual behavior, the handicap of cultural bias has so constrained progress that there has been little professional concurrence in a final definition of female sexual function.

There are 3 reasons for this stalemate in definition of female psychosexual expression:

• Until recently there was failure to develop a directly related body of biophysical information.

• There has been little interest in duplication of physiological investigative procedures to validate research findings.

• There has been little or no effort to incorporate established laboratory findings into clinical treatment of female sexual dysfunction.

A psycho physiological interpretation of female sexual response must be established and accepted, for it is impossible to consider sexual dysfunction with objectivity unless there is a base for comparison afforded by an acceptable concept of woman's sexually functional state.

In an effort to establish such a baseline interpretation, female sexual response will be contemplated as an entity separate from male sexual response, not, as might be presumed.

Because of any vast difference in their natural systems of expression and for beyond the influence of fortunate variations in reproductive anatomy and their individual patterns of physiological function the sexes are basically similar, not different but because of sex-linked differences that are largely psychosocially induced.