I hate to disagree, but I do. There are of course many cultures in Africa and Asia, and I would argue that most of them are less open to female sexuality than the Western culture. Many cultures on both of those continents are horrified by the thought that women have a sexuality at all. This is the reason why many African areas still have female circumcision, at least partially to ensure that the girl will stay a virgin until she marries. The Indian subcontinent is also generally not very positive towards female sexuality (although again there are actually different traditions WITHIN India, my wife is from that area by the way). As for East Asia, I'm sure many women feel more liberated there, but East Asia also has long traditions with women being submissive and inactive (think foot binding for instance). The "sexually insatiable women" myth that you talk about is actually quite popular in some cultures that keep women downtrodden: they use this as an argument for the need to "keep them in their place". What the early Europeans thought about sexuality no-one really knows, but the earliest historical record (mainly from Greece) certainly does not speak of sexual freedom among women, rather the opposite. They may have been freer in the Minoan culture, but that is based on paintings rather than historical record. Primitive tribal groups tend to be more relaxed about sexuality than som fundamentalist religious areas, but less so than say, Western Europe. The tribes of Papua New Guinea used to raid each other for "pigs and women". If you ask me which culture has the most sexually liberated women, I would guess the French (and Quebec perhaps), but that's just my view based on people I know.