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Article: Drug Treatments for Women's Sexual Disorders.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
- Author:
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Drug treatment for women's sexual disorders is a relatively new field. We will review possible prosexual treatments and will attempt to explain responsible psychophysiological and behavioral mechanisms, to eventually arrive at relevant insight into the workings of the drugs. We begin with a description of what is known about women's sexual disorders and the psychophysiology of women's sexual response. We will briefly consider subjective experience and relevant physiological changes in the domains of behavior, cognition, and emotion, with specific attention to sexuality. This will function as a background for a sketch of drug effects on hypoactive sexual desire, arousal ...