Female sexual arousal disorder
Have you stopped being interested in making friends with the opposite sex and are no longer enjoying a social life? Well could it be that you are stressed out? However stressed you are, when some one special comes along, you should be feeling butterflies in your stomach and your heart should beat faster and louder in anticipation. Romantics would profess to swoon and loose their heads too. Well if none of this is happening to you, then there might be a slight problem and you need to investigate and see what the problem is.
Unlike men who normally have a very strong and aggressive libido, women do have a libido which takes a while to get activated perhaps. Women need a lot more of foreplay before they are aroused to play the dance of love making. But in certain cases women do develop what is called as Female sexual arousal disorder or what is commonly known as frigidity. In the earlier times people thought that women who were frigid were so due to being a cold personality who had no emotions. But medical research has discovered quite a lot about this condition and several treatment options too.
In medical terms, frigidity is described as the inability to maintain and attain sexual arousal to complete sexual activity. In such cases the vagina appears dry without any lubrication and any attempt to engage in intercourse can proved painful. According to medical research there are several other conditions of sexual dysfunction in women which could be orgasmic disorder and even hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Emotions drive women. The psychological makeup is often colored by several factors which culminate in physiological manner showing up a sexual dysfunction. The causes of the frigidity could stem from any of the incidences and trauma faced by the person during childhood. It can also arise out of fear or relationships that have been painful either with divorced parents or failed relationship. Sometimes individual personality traits and characters could make the person frigid. Several women do suffer from psychological and emotional disturbances and depression which can affect their libido.
Most often it can also be a combination of several factors leading to sexual dysfunction. Besides these there other physiological factors such as major illness or diseases can also be the contributors to killing the libido. In fact physiological factors are known to be contributing between thirty to eighty percent to the female sexual dysfunction. Major causes are said to be due to circulatory or neurological functions. Menopause as well as diabetes is also said to be the other significant contributors.
Treatment of female sexual dysfunction includes multi pronged approach. Sexual and psychological counseling takes an important part in the treatment. Though there are no equivalent to Viagra which is available for men, there are many pharma companies who are promoting drugs involving testosterone in low dosage. Sexual counseling involves teaching and educating the couples in practicing techniques that will not only allow the partners to relax and engage in enhancing stimulation but also involves training them to engage in non coital behavior techniques which could play a major role in ensuring arousal and leading to a healthy intercourse.