Dangerous nymphomania

Historically, it is most interesting that whilst modern society and medicine are concerned that women should have a satisfying sex life, it was not always so. This is far removed from the attitudes in the last half of the 19th Century when nymphomania and masturbation were thought to be serious diseases which led to paralysis, coma and death. There were tens of thousands of women who underwent removal or irradiation of the clitoris to remove their sexual desires although in earlier centuries female sexuality was respected, -- Professor of Gynaecology, John Studd - Dangerous Nymphomania?