Worried you havent been getting any action lately? Are you always too tired to make love to your partner? Scared that your partner might leave you because of it? You may be experiencing sexual dysfunction.
Low libido, or hypoactive sexual drive disorder, is a deficiency or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity. This is considered a disorder if it causes problems for the patient or problems in the patient’s relationships. In a recent study in the United States, about 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men have admitted having sexual difficulty in one way or another. Lack of libido occurs more in women than in men. Men who have erectile dysfunction do not necessarily have low libido.
How often does low sexual drive occur? The American Medical Association has estimated that several million US women suffer from what doctors there call’female sexual arousal disorder’ (FSAD). In the UK, family planning clinics and related clinics see quite large numbers of women who complain of low libido. Our estimate is that several hundred thousand women in Britain are troubled by lack of sex drive.
Low libido in men is far less common...