Past research on the role of cognitive distraction in sexual dysfunction typically has focused on males and has been conducted in the laboratory using artificial stimuli. In the current study, young adult women (N = 74) with coital experience completed questionnaires regarding cognitive distraction and their sexuality. Those women who reported greater cognitive distraction during sexual activit...

In the sexual counseling literature there is a topic, which finds so far little attention: physical touch. The subject of touch not touched! sex-positive discourse on sexuality and especially in counseling, it could get much more space. clinical observation author over twenty years practice has shown that most people do have sufficient ›touch competence‹. different sex therapy approaches even t...

Aim: The aim was to analyse the effect of antihypertensive therapy on incidence of sexual dysfunction in patients with arterial hypertension. Design: a review study. Methods: In the period from 2000 to 2015 we searched licensed and freely available electronic databases: CINAHL EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Pubmed and Medline for relevant recherches of Czech and foreign sources. We set the following crit...

CONTEXT Female sexual pain and dysfunction. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a new site-specific, manual soft-tissue therapy in increasing orgasm and reducing dyspareunia (painful intercourse) in women with histories indicating abdominopelvic adhesion formation. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION A total of 29 new patients presenting with infertility or abdominopelvic pain-related problems, ...

Given the well-documented, long-term, negative mental health consequences of child sexual abuse, it is important that children receive counseling following abuse. Often, the social worker's responsibility is to insure that abused children are appropriately referred for counseling following disclosure of sexual abuse. There are multiple factors that could facilitate or hinder this process, and i...

PURPOSE Peg-interferon (PegIFN)α2a or PegIFNα2b plus ribavirin (RBV) is the standard therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Taiwan and Asia. It is commonly associated with adverse effects, but the issue of sexual and mental health is not well reported. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of anti-viral therapy with PegIFNα plus RBV on sexual desire and depression. METHODS...