Vaginismus is a psychophysiological syndrome affecting women’s freedom of sexual response by severely, if not totally, impeding coital function. Anatomically this clinical entity involves all components of the pelvic musculature investing the perineum and outer third of the vagina. Physiologically,…
For many women, a basic homophile orientation is a major etiological factor in heterosexual orgasmic dysfunction. For those women committed to homosexual expression, lack of orgasmic return from heterosexual opportunity is of no consequence. But there are a large number…
Inadequate Orgasm In Women In order to be considered situationally non-orgasmic, a woman must have experienced at least one instance of orgasmic expression, regardless of whether it was induced by self or by partner manipulation, developed during vaginal or rectal…
Although emphasis has been placed upon the role of premature ejaculation in the etiology of primary orgasmic dysfunction, primary or secondary impotence also contributes. Again the basic theme of man-woman coital interaction must be emphasized. If there is not a…
For many women, one of the most frequent causes of orgasmic dysfunction, either primary or situational, is a lack of complete identification with the marital partner. The husband may not meet her expectations as a provider. He may have physical…
Professionals many times look for a specific influence or conditioning that predetermines sexual failure, and in most instances, it can be identified if the delving goes deep enough. There are, however, instances of neither positive nor negative dominance by either…
While the multiplicity of etiological influences is acknowledged, the factor of religious orthodoxy still remains of major import in primary orgasmic dysfunction as in almost every form of human sexual inadequacy. In the total of 193 women who have never…
In order to be diagnosed as having primary orgasmic dysfunction, a woman must report a lack of orgasmic attainment during her entire lifespan. There is no definition of male sexual dysfunction that parallels this severity of exclusion. If a male…
Female Primary Orgasmic Dysfunction Describes a condition whereby neither the biophysical nor the psychosocial systems of influence that are required for the effective sexual function is sufficiently dominant to respond to the psychosexually stimulative opportunities provided by self-manipulation, partner manipulation,…
Origin of Orgasmic Dysfunction The potential for orgasmic dysfunction highlighted in the psychosocial-sexual histories of those women in marital couples referred to the Foundation can be described in a composite profile. A baseline of dysfunctional distress was provided by specific…
