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Women’s sexual dysfunction

Although many sources refer to women’s ‘sexual dysfunc­tion’, it is rare to find a defin­i­tion of what is supposed to be sexu­ally ‘normal’ for women in the first place.

Sex involves both repro­duc­tion and sexual pleasure. So in repro­ductive terms, a man could be described as sexu­ally dysfunc­tional if he cannot impreg­nate a female (male orgasm required) and a woman if she cannot conceive (female orgasm not required) Continue reading

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Lack of orgasm is not a sexual dysfunction

It is often suggested that a lack of female orgasm during sex is a sign of sexual dysfunc­tion but the truth is that this is simply the way things are for women who hope for orgasm from their sexual rela­tion­ships. A woman is lucky to orgasm by any means.

The belief that women orgasm ‘natur­ally’ during sex is based on fantasy (erotica and porno­graphy) and contra­dicts the conclu­sions Continue reading

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Sex experts deal with sexual dysfunction

In the film ‘Doc Holly­wood’ (1991) Bridget Fonda asks Michael J Fox whether doctors know more about sex than normal people.

This is a natural mistake to make because of the miscon­cep­tion that sex is a mech­an­ical or biolo­gical aspect of our bodies. In fact, doctors are unlikely to know any more about sex than the rest of us.

Sex is primarily about our psycho­logy and Continue reading

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