BACKGROUND Sexual desire and frequency of sexual relationships during pregnancy remains challenging. This study aimed to assess factors that affect women's sexual functioning during pregnancy. METHODS This was a cross sectional study carried out at prenatal care clinics of public health services in Iran. An author-designed structured questionnaire including items on socio-demographic characte...

BACKGROUND Vilazodone has been shown to reduce core symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in three randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Since sexual dysfunction (SD) is not well characterized in GAD, a post hoc analysis of these trials was conducted to evaluate the effects of vilazodone on sexual functioning in GAD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were pooled from...

BACKGROUND Interpersonal sensitivity is characterized by the predisposition to perceive and elicit criticism, rejection, and negative social evaluation. It may be linked to poorer physical or functional health outcomes, particularly in the interpersonal context (cancer-related sexual dysfunction). PURPOSE This study tested the association of interpersonal sensitivity with sexual functioning f...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated sexual functioning in persons with obesity and seeking weight loss, and the associations of sexual functioning with relevant demographic and clinical variables as well as quality of life were investigated. DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were enrolled in a two-year randomized clinical trial. Participants were obese and had at least two components of metabolic...

BACKGROUND Clinical experiences have revealed that patients with breast cancer experience various sexual problems following their treatment. Breast cancer negatively impacts the sexual life of the afflicted couples, and as a traumatic event can influence women's psychosexual functioning and intimate relationship. This review focuses on sexuality after breast cancer and on a growing need for bio...

OBJECTIVE To assess the degree to which a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) moderates the association between sexual functioning and sexual distress in women. METHOD Women with (n=105, M age=33.71, 66.1% Caucasian) and without (n=71, M age=32.63, 74.7% Caucasian) a history of CSA taking part in a larger clinical trial completed self-report questionnaires at intake including the Sexual S...

There are many ways to include stochastic effects in models of sex allocation evolution. These include variability in the number of mating partners and fecundity in a rich literature that goes back 20 years. The effects of variance in the fecundity and number of mating partners have typically been considered separately from the stochastic effects of mortality. However, I show that these process...

The evolution of dioecy from a monomorphic hermaphroditic condition requires two mutations, one producing females and one producing males. Conversely, a single mutation sterilizing one sexual function in one morph of distylous species would result in functional dioecy because such a mutation also affects the complementary function in the other morph. In this study, we tested these ideas with Er...

Advances in prostate cancer treatments since the 1990s have led to a growing proportion of patients living with the effects of the cancer. Various challenges face the man and his partner from the point of learning of the diagnosis: deciding among numerous diverse treatment options, dealing with side-effects of treatment and possibly facing the terminal phase of the illness. This invariably has ...

PURPOSE We used utility assessment to evaluate patient preferences for current urinary and sexual function after radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We measured preferences in 209 community volunteers enrolled in a prostate cancer screening study who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1994 and 1998. We compared preferences in 3 outcome groups, namely men bothered by current urin...