Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
In the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is sending female sexual interest/arousal disorder, interpersonal context must be taken into account. In desire discrepancy in which a woman has lower desire for sexual activities and her partner, is not sufficient to diagnose female sexual interest/arousal disorder in order for the criteria for the disorder to be met, there must be absence or reduced frequency or intensity of at least three of six indicators (criteria A) for a minimum duration of approximately 6 months (criteria B).. There may be different symptom profiles across women, as well as variability in how sexual interest and arousal are expressed. For example in one woman, sexual interest/arousal disorder may be expressed as a lack of interest in sexual activity, the absence of erotic or sexual thoughts, and reluctance to initiate sexual activity and respond to it partners sexual invitations.
In other women, and inability to become sexually excited, to respond to sexual stimuli with sexual desire and corresponding lack of signs of physical sexual arousal may be the primary features. Presenter because sexual desire and arousal frequently coexist and are elicited in response to adequate sexual causes, the criteria for female sexual interest/arousal disorder take into account the difficulties in desire and arousal often simultaneously characterize the complaints of women with this disorder.
Short-term changes in sexual interest or arousal are common and maybe adaptive responses to events in a woman's life and do not represent a sexual dysfunction. Diagnosis of female sexual interest/arousal disorder requires a minimum duration of symptoms of approximat...
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Sexuality is very diverse, in some instances normality is based on the cultural context of the individual 's society. In "The other side of desire" by Daniel Bergner, the author goes in depth into the lives of four individual 's whose lust and longing have led them far down the realms of desire. The current paper addresses the four individual 's Jacob, the Baroness, Roy, and Ron each exhibits a paraphilia that may or may not meet the full criteria in the DSM-5. Furthermore, each person’s specific paraphilia is conceptualized and explained in depth. Countertransferential issues anticipated before working with these individuals is analyzed and clarified. Also, the apprehension of sexual arousal and sexual behaviors is conceptualized into normality
This site gives a brief overview of some of the biological aspects of sexual disorders.
References to Kurt Freund’s studies to “assess sexual arousal in men and women” and Alfred Kinsey’s “sexual orientation” scale are made to further explain how sexuality and asexuality are not solid concepts with strict definitions of their own but rather more multifarious. For
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As more studies were conducted, however, some doctors began to link hysteria with restricted activity and sexual ...
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV); A person who suffers from this disorder must have a depressed mood, or have lost interest in things that would have normally brought them pleasure; for a minimum of two weeks. This must be different then the person’s normal behaviors, and it may not be caused by a general medical condition. (American Psychiatric Association, 1994)
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We expect the results of this study to agree with our hypothesis. After comparing the scores for all three measures for both men and women, we expect to see a decrease in the desire for sexual variety for men in all three measures and no change in sexual variety for women after close relationships. According to the research presented at the beginning of this proposal, we have found that men and women do differ in their desire for sexual variety, but because they share similarities in their relationship values, men are affected by close relationships.
Ros Boa, A practitioner of Sexual Medicine defines female sexual pain has “prevalent and distressing for patients.” Boa concentrates on sexual pain or Vaginismus in women despite age, race, and ethnicity. According to the article of “Female sexual pain disorders,” female dysfunction is anything that intervenes with the sexual response cycle. A problem such as ‘pain’ prevents the individual from experiencing satisfaction from sexual activity due to involuntary muscle spasm that closes off any form of penetration by the tampon, speculum, or the male penis.
The American Psychiatric Association does not define atypical sexual interests as a disorder unless it causes personal distress, causes another person psychological or physical injury, or involves a person unwilling or unable to give legal consent. These distinctions were made to show that individuals who engage in atypical sexual behavior must not be inappropriately labeled as having a mental disorder. When we think of sexual orientation, we usually think of the continuum of gay, straight, and bisexual, but sexual orientation is a deep-seated attraction toward a certain kind of person. Erotic desire includes attention, attraction, fantasy, thoughts, urges, genital arousal, and behavior. It is further complicated by variations of dominance or submission, sadism and masochism, fetishes, and consent or no consent. These interests may be single or multiple, exclusive or nonexclusive, idiosyncratic or opportunistic, stable or fluid. Possible legal consequences, lack of opportunity, and unwillingness or inability to act all work to constrain our behavior. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. The reasons for our sexual choices are analyzed obsessively, imposing an undue emphasis on categorization rather than accepting the great diversity of same-sex attractions. But the act of categorizing all of these atypical sexual attractions does not mean that acting on them is either legal or morally acceptable nor unacceptable. Explanations for all of the elements of our sexual attractions are complex and probably unknowable. All research runs the risk of reductionism, but when research on sexuality focuses exclusively on genital sexual activity --to the exclusion of considerations of attraction, affection and affiliation--it falls short in understanding our
In 2004, one researcher claimed that “in both sexual aversion disorder and HSDD, there usually is or was a sexual orientation toward partners of either or both genders, but there is either an aversion for genital contact with these partners (e.g., extreme anxiety when a sexual encounter presents itself) or a low sexual desire for these partners. Sexual aversion disorder and HSDD issues often arise within the context of couples—as, for example, when a ‘discrepancy of sexual desire’ is diagnosed. Asexuality, in contrast, can be defined as the absence of a traditional sexual orientation, in which an individual would exhibit little or no sexual attraction to males or females” (Bogeart, “Asexuality: Prevalence” 1). Ignoring the problematic adherence to the gender binary, this distinction does not provide for asexuals who may experience romantic attraction (commonly mistaken by both asexuals and non-asexuals as sexual attraction), but not
The initial study, implemented in 2005, surveyed thirty people, who proclaimed they have “great sex”; the initial finding of these thirty people found six different components of optimal sexuality. With their follow up study,