William Acton, Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs 1857

"The majority of women (happily for society) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind. What men are habitually, women are only exceptionally...There can be no doubt that sexual feeling in the female is in the majority of cases in abeyance, and that it requires positive and considerable excitement to be roused at all; and even if aroused (which in many instances it can never be) it is very moderate compared with that of the male."