Sexual dysfunction

Sexual dysfunction

A psychological or physical disorder during any phase of the sexual response cycle that prevents the individual or couple from experiencing satisfaction from the sexual activity.

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sexual dysfunction

Health care; Sexual health

A psychological or physical disorder during any phase of the sexual response cycle that prevents the individual or couple from experiencing satisfaction from the sexual activity.

sexual dysfunction

Medical;

Sexual dysfunction refers to a difficulty experienced by an individual or a couple during any stage of a normal sexual activity, including desire, arousal or orgasm.

physiological sexual dysfunction

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Physiological disturbances in normal sexual performance in either the male or the female.

psychological sexual dysfunction

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Disturbances in sexual desire and the psychophysiologic changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty.

psychological sexual dysfunctions

Health care; Diseases

Disturbances in sexual desire and the psychophysiologic changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty.

dysfunction

Sociology; General sociology

An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.

Sigmund Freud

Health care; Sexual health

(1856–1939) Influential psychoanalyst who believed that we must understand human sexuality if we are to understand human nature. He understood that children have strong sexual ...

Havelock Ellis

Health care; Sexual health

(1859–1939) English author of Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1903–28). Until 1935, Ellis’s Studies, which argued that erotic dreams, foreplay, and masturbation were normal, ...

Katharine Bement Davis

Health care; Sexual health

(1860–1945) Completed the first major study on women’s sexuality, Factors in the Sex Lives of Twenty-Two Hundred Women, which was published in 1929. She gathered data for more ...

Magnus Hirschfeld

Health care; Sexual health

(1868–1935) German sexologist who founded the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin in 1919. He studied human sexuality in order to provide counseling for sexual problems. He ...

Marie Carmichael Stopes

Health care; Sexual health

(1880–1958) Opened the first British birth control clinic in 1921. One of her books, Married Love, was declared obscene by the U. S. Customs in 1921 because it described the ...

Margaret Sanger

Health care; Sexual health

(1883–1966) Founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Margaret Sanger began her career as a nurse who fought to legalize birth control in order to prevent women from ...

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