This paper has attempted to correlate psychoanalytic concepts regarding female sexual response with physiological data accumulated during recent years. Coitus has been viewed as one phase of the total process of reproduction in the female.

For historical reasons, psychoanalytic theory projected its thought without such knowledge of the anatomy or physiology of the sexual act which is now at our disposal. However, in recent findings in these fields we have found corollaries to some of our psychoanalytic concepts. We have gained a better understanding of the dual role of the vagina: its function in the service of propagation