Three components commonly utilized in sex therapy for secondary orgasmic dysfunction (Sensate Focus I, Sensate Focus II, and ban on intercourse) were studied, with the aim of not only exploring their effects on therapy outcome but also, in part, of sensitizing investigators to the benefits of incorporating component analyses within larger investigations of therapy outcome. The subjects were 23 ...

Questionnaires diagnosing sexual dysfunctions in women are important tools which can facilitate the diagnosis and therapy of individual female patients. The study is aimed at the adaptation of the Sexual Function Questionnaire, which was designed by Frances H. Quirk and associates for the American population, to Polish conditions (Quirk et al. in J Sex Med 4:469-77, 1). The study group consiste...

The number of patients seen at the psychosexual clinic has more than doubled in eight years. The diagnostic categories of the patients referred have also changed, especially in the area of homosexuality, and now show greater similarity to figures obtained in two reports from Great Britain, apart from a lower referral rate for orgasmic dysfunction. There is also an overall lower rate of referral...

The Female Sexual Functioning Index (FSFI; Rosen et al., 2000) is a self-report measure of sexual functioning that has been validated on a clinically diagnosed sample of women with female sexual arousal disorder. The present investigation extended the validation of the FSFI to include women with a primary clinical diagnosis of female orgasmic disorder (FOD; n = 71) or hypoactive sexual desire d...

INTRODUCTION Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) has been reported in 46% of women with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). FSD is a common health problem that remains under-investigated, especially in Eastern communities, where discussion of the issue is considered a taboo. In this study we determined the prevalence of various subtypes of FSD in relation to LUTS in women in Ismailia, Egypt. PAT...

The goal of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of three therapeutic formats: Standard Couple Therapy, Group Therapy, and Minimal Contact Bibliotherapy (self-help) in the treatment of 23 couples in which the wife was suffering from secondary orgasmic dysfunction. The results indicate that a cognitive-behavioral sex therapy program is clearly effective in changing a wide range of ...

There are few experimental investigations of the natural coital process in human subjects; the relatively small literature on this topic deals mainly with extracoital orgasm. Boas & Goldschmidt (1932) made simultaneous recordings of the heart rate of a man and woman in coitus. There was a peak in the heart rate of the woman with each of her four orgasms, and of the man with ejaculation. Mendels...

James H. Barada Ejaculation, representing the physiologic means of semen and sperm delivery for reproduction has, until recently, received relatively little attention in the area of male sexual health. Yet, ejaculatory dysfunction, or male orgasmic disorder (MOD), is one of the most common male sexual disorders. The spectrum of MOD extends from premature ejaculation through various manifestatio...

The efficacy o f directed masturbation as an adjunct to the treatment o f primary orgasmic dysfunction was evaluated. The directed masturbation procedure consisted o f a gradual series o f assignments that were to be practiced by the patient. The test o f the effectiveness o f directed masturbation was conducted with three couples who had not benefited from a sexual treatment program modeled af...

Female coital orgasm may be an adaptation for preferentially retaining the sperm of males with "good genes." One indicator of good genes may be physical attractiveness. Accordingly, R. Thornhill, S. W. Gangestad, and R. Comer (1995) found that women mated to more attractive men reported an orgasm during a greater proportion of copulations than did women mated to less attractive men. The current...