Dyspareunia Vaginismus And Vulvodanya

While it is common for many sexual dysfunctions to be related to a medical condition, it is not true one hundred percent of the time. Certain sexual health issues, such as premature ejaculation, can be tied to an underlying medical malady, such as obesity. Yet, there are many men across the world who deal with premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, and delayed ejaculation who are otherwise perfectly healthy. This is not to say that the men in question

The second disorder is female sexual arousal disorder. This is just a lack of vaginal lubrication and most women experience this at one time or another in their lives.

This paper will outline sexuality at different life stages, and as a sexual therapist I will coach an adolescent girl with a boyfriend who is pressuring her to have sex; an elderly couple with a wife exhibiting a renewed interest in sexual activity and a unwilling husband; and finally a handicapped male that has been paralyzed since he was four years old.

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

Sexual dysfunction can occur in men and women and refers to a problem during any phase of the sexual response cycle that prevents the individual or couple from experiencing satisfaction from sexual activity. Dysfunction is more common in the early adult years, with the majority of people seeking help during their late 20s and early 30s. It is also common in the geriatric population, which may be related to bad health associated with aging.

There are also health issues that can affect the ability to enjoy sex. These include Arthritis, Dementia, heart disease, Incontinence, and many more illnesses. There are many other causes of sexuality problems other than just the illnesses. Something such as surgery can affect ones sex life drastically.

Victims are prone to painful, unsatisfying, obligatory, orgasm lacking sex. Sexual problems can include arousal issues, spasms of the vagina and flashbacks, not to mention emotional issues related to sex such as sexual guilt, anxiety and low self-esteem (Finkelhor and Browne, 1985, 1988). Victims may feel like they are supposed to be intimate with a partner instead of wanting to be and that leads to feelings of irritability, hate and resentment (www.psychologytoday.com, Laumann, Piel and Rosen,

A program I found on the internet called Private Gym and its owners have attributed the cause of these sexual problems to weak pelvic muscles.

The first website I reviewed dealt with Vaginismus Treatment. The site seemed to be fairly informative and was aimed towards women who were looking for treatment outside of psychotherapy, pharmaceuticals or surgery. The beginning of the site provides an overview of how treatment can be administered to help relieve the symptoms of the dysfunction, focusing in on the exercise portion. After reviewing the site, there is great deal of information on various tabs detailing the symptoms and causes. However, this information does not discuss additional treatments besides for the self help kit available on the site.

Erectile dysfunction- When the male lacks the ability to keep an erection and lacking energy during sex. This is most common in men who are 60 and older. It is treated by either medication or by self treatment by exercising or stopping smoking

One of the common causes of dyspareunia is virginal dryness (Dean et al., 2014). Vaginal dryness happens due to post partum decrease in circulating estrogen, which can increase in women that are breastfeeding (Dean et al., 2014).

With a potential total of 150M men worldwide (30M in the United States alone) suffering from medical Erectile Dysfunction, there is a wide range of factors identified as the potential causes:

     Erectile dysfunction refers to a condition in which a patient is 1) completely unable to achieve an erection; 2) frequently unable to achieve an erection; 3) able to achieve an erection but unable to maintain it. (http://www.urologychannel.com/erectiledysfunction/index.shtml) There can be many reasons for erectile dysfunction, ranging from purely physiological issues to psychological problems.

Firstly, age is a valuable dimension due to the strong positive correlation to erectile dysfunction (ED) incidence. Secondly, as shown in the demographic data presented by Lilly ICOS, most men who suffer from ED are either married or living together with their partner. Being the influence of the spouse one of the

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.