What Is HSDD? For both patients and health care providers, HSDD probably should mean “Having the Sexual Dysfunction Discussion” to diagnose and treat distressful conditions,1 but it really stands for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. The DSM-IV defines it as the persistent or recurring deficiency (or absence) of sexual fantasies or thoughts or desire for sexual activity associated with persona...

INTRODUCTION Traditionally, sexual desire is understood to occur spontaneously, but more recent models propose that desire responds to sexual stimuli. AIMS To experimentally assess whether sexual stimuli increased sexual desire; to compare how sexual arousal and desire responded to three modalities of sexual stimuli: erotic story, unstructured fantasy, and the Imagined Social Situation Exerci...

according to iran’s folk medicine, camphor, a crystalline ketone obtained from essential oils of cinnamomum camphora, has both sexual behavior attenuating and enhancing properties. this study examined the effects of camphor on sexual behavior in male rats. twenty four sexually mature male sprague-dawley rats were randomly divided into 4 groups receiving daily i.p. injections of olive oil as veh...

INTRODUCTION Insufficient documentation exists regarding the prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in surgically menopausal (SM) women in European countries. Women who have undergone hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy experience a loss of ovarian hormones. Inclusion of these women in an epidemiological study provided the opportunity to study biological and cultural impacts...

Menstrual problem is common among women with chronic kidney disease, and patients with end-stage renal disease usually have amenorrhea. The rate of pregnancy in women on dialysis is low. Fetal survival in this population has improved, with half of such pregnancies resulting in delivery of a live infant. However, prematurity remains common and accounts for the low-birth weight of these infants. ...

background:   objective: herein we evaluated the frequency and predisposing factors of sexual dysfunction in infertile pcos patients.   materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 130 married women with a definite diagnosis of pcos who were referred due to infertility were recruited. they were evaluated concerning their sexual function in the domains of desire, arousal, lubrication, o...

Medicalisation is a social phenomenon in which conditions that were once under legal, religious, personal or other jurisdictions are brought into the domain of medical authority. Low sexual desire females has been medicalised, pathologised as disease, and intervened upon with range pharmaceuticals. There two polarised positions on medicalisation low female desire: I call these mainstream view c...

OBJECTIVE To describe sexual desire in female-to-male transsexual persons post sex reassignment surgery (SRS). The associations between serum androgen levels and sexual desire are examined. DESIGN Single center cross-sectional study. METHODS Forty-five female-to-male transsexual persons post SRS completed a standardized questionnaire assessing sexual desire (Sexual Desire Inventory). In add...

   According to Iran’s folk medicine, camphor, a crystalline ketone obtained from essential oils of Cinnamomum camphora, has both sexual behavior attenuating and enhancing properties. This study examined the effects of camphor on sexual behavior in male rats. Twenty four sexually mature male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 4 groups receiving daily i.p. injections of oliv...