Persistent difficulty and inability to let inside the private part (vagina) any foreign object such as male genital organ (penis), a finger or any other object, despite a woman’s expressed wish to do so. This is due to variable involuntary (without our wish/control) muscular contraction of pelvis (muscles near our private parts), avoidance and anticipation/fear/experience of pain. The primary motive…
Genital pain is a burden for females and impairs the quality of life. This pain is often most concerning when it interferes with a woman’s ability to engage in and enjoy sexual activities, typically intercourse (i.e. pain during vaginal intercourse). Women with pain during intercourse often experience negative impacts on their psychological health, relationships and quality of life. There might…
Women exhibit a huge variability in orgasm frequency and type of stimulation needed to experience an orgasm. Therefore, it is quite difficult for a female to experience orgasm at different times and report the difficulty in achieving orgasm. The difficulty in experiencing orgasm can be presented as: the presence of marked delay in, marked infrequency of, or absence of orgasm,…
Sexual stimulation for women is not only physical or genital, but also psychological and emotional. Sexual arousal focuses on the physiologic aspect of genital arousal, i.e. genital vasocongestion, lubrication, tingling and what women may perceive as sexual arousal is the subjective feeling of being “turned on”. In the clinical setting, women with decreased lubrication complain of vaginal dryness or discomfort…
There are lack of sexual fantasies and interest for sexual activity along with no response to partner’s attempts to initiate sexual activity and less interest/arousal in response to sexual hints. These features should be persistent or recurrent. Causes of HSDD 1. Medical – Thyroid hormone related issues, Urinary Incontinence, Diabetes Hypertension, Arthritis, Spinal cord injury. 2. Medicines – Antipsychotics, Cardiovascular…