50 divorce seeking couples, when compared with 30 well adjusted couples, showed that sex-related factors and sexual dysfunctions were related to divorce seeking behaviour. A significantly high number of couples in the study group, reported a bad honeymoon, unsatisfactory coital experience, lack of cooperation from the spouse and variant sexual habits. The findings emphasis the importance of imp...

INTRODUCTION Women's sexual dysfunction includes reduced interest/incentives for sexual engagement, difficulties with becoming subjectively and/or genitally aroused, difficulties in triggering desire during sexual engagement, orgasm disorder, and sexual pain. AIM To update the recommendations published in 2004, from the 2nd International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) pertaining to th...

INTRODUCTION About 45% of women suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction. Despite its high prevalence, there are few studies that have systematically evaluated sex therapy in comparison with other interventions. OBJECTIVE Review randomized clinical trials that present psychotherapeutic interventions for female sexual dysfunctions. METHOD Through a search in three databases (Medline, Web ...

INTRODUCTION The challenges for prostate cancer survivors include the surveillance of prostate cancer recurrence and management of physical, cognitive, sexual, and socioeconomic quality of life issues. Sexual function remains an important issue in men, who often continue to be interested in sex after prostate cancer treatment. The various post-prostate cancer treatment-related sexual dysfunctio...

Patients treated for testicular cancer have increased risk of ejaculatory, orgasmic and erectile dysfunction compared with healthy men. The underlying relations are unclear. This review describes sexual dysfunctions that are associated with various treatment modalities. One meta-analysis and 11 original works were examined. About one third of the patients experience one or more sexual problems ...

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 varia...

POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND COMORBID SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS Marina Letica-Crepulja, Tanja Grahovac-Juretić, Sanja Katalinić, Tomislav Lesica, Ika Rončević-Gržeta & Tanja Frančišković Regional Psychotrauma Centre Rijeka and Department of Psychological Medicine, Psychiatric Clinic, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia Department for Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, University...