Sexual Performance
Sexual dysfunction or sexual malfunction is difficulty during any stage of the sexual act (which includes desire, arousal, orgasm, and resolution) that prevents the individual or couple from enjoying sexual activity.
Sexual difficulties can begin early in a person’s sex life or they may develop after an individual has previously experienced enjoyable and satisfying sex. A problem may develop gradually over time, or may occur suddenly as a total or partial inability to participate in one or more stages of the sexual act. The causes of sexual difficulties can be physical, psychological, or both.
Among the categories of sexual dysfunction disorders is sexual arousal disorders. They are known as frigidity (now described as any of several specific problems with desire, arousal, or anxiety) in women and impotence or erectile dysfunction in men.
For both men and women, these conditions may appear as an aversion to, and avoidance of, sexual contact with a partner. In men, there may be partial or complete failure to attain or maintain an erection, or a lack of sexual excitement and pleasure in sexual activity.
Sexual Dysfunction Symptoms
- Men/Women’s Sexual Dysfunction Symptoms
- Lack of interest in sex or loss of libido
- Inability to feel aroused
- Pain with intercourse (more common in women than men)
- Men’s Sexual Dysfunction Symptoms
- Inability to get an erection
- Inability to maintain an erection adequately for intercourse
- Delay or absence of ejaculation despite adequate stimulation
- Inability to control timing of ejaculation
- Women’s Sexual Dysfunction Symptoms
- Inability to relax vaginal muscles enough to allow intercourse
- Inadequate vaginal lubrication before and during intercourse
- Burning pain on the vulva or in the vagina with contact to those areas
- Inability to attain orgasm
Sexual Dysfunction Information
Erectile Dysfunction
Information on Erectile Dysfunction, its causes and treatment.
Female Impotence
Information on “female impotence” or female sexual arousal disorder, its causes and treatment.
Improve Sex Life
Recommended medication in treating sexual dysfunction.
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