In this brief communication, the author attempts to relate what she considers Freud's shortcomings in the realm of female sexuality to his cultural milieu. She maintains that lack of progress in dealing with femininity has to do with an unwarranted reverence for Freud's writings. Following this brief communication is a previously unpublished letter, dated July 21, 1935, from Freud to Dr. Carl Muller-Braunschweig, in which Freud again emphasizes the need to keep psychoanalysis separate from biology.