In women, sexual problems related to diabetes include vaginal dryness, painful intercourse, low desire or decreased sexual response.
MORE THAN BY any other sexual problem — the elusiveness of orgasm, say, or pain during sex — women feel plagued by low desire.
Though she explained that the condition, which can make intercourse excruciating, is not in itself a disorder of low desire, she said that her patients reported reduced genital pain as their desire increased.
Brotto speaks, as well, about how varied the experiences of her patients with low desire can be, and about the "enormous heterogeneity" of women's sexuality in general and thus the extreme difficulty of establishing meaningful norms or outlining dysfunctions.
The joke is really on love, which has so often been this amalgam of low desire and high diction, even though the height of the diction may change with the centuries.
Brotto doesn't want the disorder of low desire to reflect primarily male standards of normality; she doesn't want to pathologize women for what may be perfectly ordinary.
Michael Sand, a clinical sexologist, and William Fisher, a psychologist, surveyed more than 130 women and found that it was primarily those with sexual dysfunctions, including low desire, who identified with Basson's ideas.
Wilde might have said that such things were too important not to write trivially about them; but O'Hara almost never faces up to the emptiness beneath this high life and low desire — if there's a subconscious revealed, it's very hard to detect.
While she spends lots of time focusing on the possible benefits of Buddhist techniques in treating low desire, she talked with me in fascinated detail, full of expertise on specific neural receptors, about the perplexing role of hormones, among them testosterone.
