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Objectives: The Sexual Self-Esteem Inventory for Women (SSEI-W-SF) is an English-language scale created by Paula Doyle Zeanah (Louisiana State University School of Medicine) and J. Conrad Schwarz (University of Connecticut). It is the abbreviated version of the SSEI-W. This inventory was developed to assess affective reactions to self-reports of sexuality. The purpose of this article is to develop a French version of the SSEI-W-SF (IESS-F-VC) and to conduct an initial validation study. Methods: In our third study, we submitted a questionnaire containing four scales to a sample of 850 French-speaking women (Belgium, France, Canada): the French version of the SSEI-W-SF, the French version of the Multidimensional Body–Self Relations Questionnaire–Appearance Scales (MBSQR–AS) created by Untas, Koleck, Rascle, and Borteyrou (2009), a French version of the Body-Esteem Scale (BES), and the French version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ) created by Rousseau, Valls, and Chabrol (2010). For this scale validation study, we measured the internal consistency of the different scales using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The internal validity of the SSEI-W-SF was determined through a principal component analysis, a Scree Plot analysis confirmed by parallel analysis, as well as a component matrix table analysis. Results and conclusion: The Cronbach’s alpha value was 0.82 for the SSEI-W-SF scale. The correlation coefficients between the SSEI-W-SF scale score and the score of the other reference scales were significant at p<.01: SSEI-W-SF and MBSRQ–AE subscale: 0.58; SSEI-W-SF and MBSRQ–BAS subscale: 0.54; SSEI-W-SF and BES scale: 0.58; SSEI-W-SF and MBSRQ–OP subscale: −0.24; SSEI-W-SF and MBSRQ–SCW subscale: −0.21; SSEI-W-SF and SATAQ scale: −0.28. Correlation coefficients between the MBSRQ–AO subscale score and the SSEI-W-SF score were significant at p<05: 0.08. The principal component analysis of the SSEI-W-SF scale, the Scree Plot analysis confirmed by the parallel analysis, as well as the analysis of the component matrix table revealed the unidimensional structure of the SSEI-W-SF scale. The French version of this inventory therefore presents satisfactory metrological parameters, allowing us to recommend its use for the study of sexual self-esteem in women.