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sexual dysfunction
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sexual dysfunction

Inability to experience arousal or achieve sexual satisfaction under ordinary circumstances, as a result of psychological or physiological problems. The most common sexual dysfunctions have traditionally been referred to as impotence (applied to males) and frigidity (females), but these terms have gradually been replaced by more specific terms. Most sexual dysfunctions can be overcome through use of counseling, psychotherapy, or drug therapy.



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However, once discussed and debated in the public realm, the new loading of cultural meanings onto sexual problems no doubt affected the individual man even as he faced issues such as homosexuality, impotence, or sexual brutality in private.
Women lose sexual desire when they feel disrespected, devalued, or degraded and when their partners use poor sexual techniques or have sexual problems of their own (Leiblum, 2002; Leiblum & Rosen, 1988).
One study compared men who had TURP to no treatment-percentage of men with sexual problems was about the same.
 
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