It’s not unusual for a man and a woman to have sexual health problems at some point in their lives. For a growing number of women, declining hormones, job stress, relationship issues, menopause, and other problems are taking their toll in the bedroom.
The most common form of sexual dysfunction among women of all ages is the loss of sexual desire, also known as Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) in medical terms. While men’s main sexual health problem called erectile dysfunction has a variety of treatment options to choose from regardless of its underlying cause, women’s sexual difficulties are not as simple to address. Female sexual problems are actually a combination of mental and physical causes. As such, it cannot be cured easily by swallowing a pill.
According to sex psychologist Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg, women’s sexuality tends to be multifaceted and fairly complicated. Although we would love to simplify it so we could have the one-two or even a one-punch treatment, it doesn’t tend to work that way, she said.
Most experts say that frequency of sexual intercourse has nothing to do with sexual desire or satisfaction....