Women may not fit that pattern, he says. They may not feel desire initially, for example, though they may once they are engaged in lovemaking, he says.
In the study, 9 percent to 26 percent of women had that condition. They reported relationship problems, low self-esteem and depression.
The question, experts say, is which came first: the loss of sex drive, the low self-esteem, the relationship problems or the depression?
Sex therapists and psychiatrists increasingly recognize that women's sexuality is different than men's, says Dennis Sugrue, a Bloomfield Hills, Mich., sexual therapist and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Men's desire typically progresses in a linear path, starting with feeling desire, acting on it, and orgasm, a three-step progression, Sugrue says, perhaps followed by a fourth step, "turning on Leno or Letterman," he jokes.
Source: Detroit Free Press. Powered by Yellowbrix.
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