Background: Infertility is a major challenge to balance the emotional and sexual life of a couple. Sexual dysfunction is common in infertile couples and women are affected more often than men. This may be related to infertility or infertility diagnosis and treatment process. Infertile couples look sex as part of the process in the treatment so sexy and sensual aspects of human needs will be rem...

Aims: Sexual health literacy is a context-based variable affected by the ecosystem or a set of cultural and social factors of each community. This study aimed to determine sexual health literacy and the related factors. Instrument & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The population of this study was 305 women referring to the health centers of Qazvin, Iran. Sampling was done through a ...

Older adult women age 55+ years (N = 549) were interviewed as part of a population-based epidemiological research study of lifetime experiences with physical and sexual assault and current mental health problems. Although overall rates of psychopathology were low, producing very small cells for comparison, women who reported experiencing physical assault an average of 28 years previously were m...

background: infertility is a factor which has been linked to higher prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in women; however, ambiguous results have been reported about the impact of infertility on women’s sexual satisfaction. the purpose of this study was to compare sexual and dyadic functioning in infertile and fertile women. furthermore, the associations between sexual variables and clinical vari...

background: infertility as the bitterest life experience can affect sexual function. many studies have shown agitation, depression, marital dissatisfaction, and sexual dysfunction as the psychological outcomes resulting from infertility. many factors, including body mass index, influence the female sexual function. objective: this study aimed to assess the prevalence of female sexual dysfunctio...

Sexual dimorphisms in the brain underlie behavioral sex differences, but the function of individual sexually dimorphic neuronal populations is poorly understood. Neuronal sexual dimorphisms typically represent quantitative differences in cell number, gene expression, or other features, and it is unknown whether these dimorphisms control sex-typical behavior exclusively in one sex or in both sex...