According to some studies every third woman at the age
between 18 and 60 is suffering for some type of sexual disorder or has tom deal
with low libido. The most common cause of these occurrences is the hormonal
changes that take place during the menstrual cycle or after the woman enters
the menopause period. But very often low sex drive occurs after childbirth when
the woman experience painful sexual intercourse or suffer from depression.
During the menopause there are hormonal changes that
naturally lead to sudden or gradual loss of sexual desire. The moisture in the
vagina is lowered or completely lost which results in drier and less flexible
vagina. This is why many women at that age complain about painful sexual
intercourse which is the main reason why sexual life becomes so poor. But there
is a simple solution for a problem like that and it comes in the form of
hormonal and few other types of creams.
In the last decade, doctors advise women who are in the
period of menopause to take hormonal therapies that include estrogen because
these therapies have positive effects on the libido. But the most interesting
part about female sex drive is that new mothers are the ones that lose interest
in sex faster than any other group of women. Of course, the main reason is that
they are too busy with the baby and they don’t have much time to exchange
tenderness with their partner.
When a woman doesn’t have any physical problem, lack of
sexual desire could be a result of some psychological obstacle. A special
problem occurs in women that lose interest in sex after they had some medical
interventions that involved their reproductive organs like hysterectomy or
mastectomy for example.
Some women might relate these situations with loss of their
youth, femininity and beauty because they lead to premature menopause. Some of
the most common sexual disorders are sexual desire disorders and orgasm
disorders. The loss of sexual desire doesn’t exclude sexual pleasure or arousal
by default. But it certainly means that the sexual activities will be less
frequent.
One of the sexual disorders that is interesting for the
scientists is so-called psycho-sexual aversion to sexual pleasure and lack of libido that manifests in refusal of any type of sexual contact with
the partner.
In many cases these women were victims of sexual abuse at
some point in their life. On the other hand, there are situations when the
woman has unexplainable desire for sex most of the time – nymphomania. It is
important to understand that these disorders are not organic.
The causes of sexual disorders can be numerous – somatic
diseases (for example, one third of people suffering from diabetes have sexual
disorders), alcohol abuse, drug abuse, decreased activity of the thyroid gland,
abnormal anatomy of the vagina as a result of surgery, infections, use of
medications etc.
Besides these somatic factors, mistakes made in the process
of education at home and at school can lead to problems too.