Vaginal Laxity Issues, Answers and Implications for Female Sexual Function.

Vaginal laxity and tissue architecture have often been overlooked as contributing etiologic factors to female sexual dysfunction. Vaginal laxity can lead to decreased physical sensation during intercourse. This decrease in sensation is often coupled with a decrease in sexual satisfaction, which can affect a woman’s sense of sexual self-esteem and her relationship with her sexual partner. Indeed, physiologically, introital vaginal laxity is the key facet when discussing sexual function associated with vaginal laxity based on the positioning of the clitoral matrix. Subjective report of vaginal laxity, or looseness, might be suboptimal for defining the medical condition. However, vaginal laxity remains a patient self-reported condition, and thus far no objective measurement exists to quantify its severity or uniquely separate it from overall pelvic floor dysfunction.