Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the *ual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read *ual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate *ual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a research psychologist who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.