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In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Female sexual response has historically been understudied. Using the female sexual function index FSFI-6 , this study estimated female sexual response and its associations with sociodemographic characteristics, self-reported health conditions, and logging of sex events.
Participants included a large and demographically diverse sample of users of the Flo Health mobile application app in the United States. This study demonstrates that many individual factors are relevant to female sexual response and is the first to report a positive association between trying to conceive, obesity, and sexual event logging with female sexual function. Evidence shows the importance of sexual satisfaction, with Yet, an estimated Impaired female sexual response can take on different forms, including a disruption in sexual desire, difficulties with arousal, and challenges achieving orgasm 5.
FSD can be characterized by multiple disorders, namely hypoactive sexual desire disorder, sexual aversion disorder, female genital arousal disorder, persistent genital arousal disorder, female orgasmic disorder, pleasure dissociative orgasm disorder, female orgasmic illness syndrome, or sexual pain disorders 7. FSD is underdiagnosed and undertreated by clinicians 8. Even in the absence of clinically diagnosed sexual dysfunction, women report lower sexual satisfaction.
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In a study of over participants across the US without diagnosed sexual dysfunction, only Female sexual response is complex and can be affected by multiple factors, such as age 10 , use of medication 11 , physical and emotional health, negative sexual experiences, and length of relationships 12 , In most existing investigations of female sexual response, the average age of participants tends to be in the mids, which limits generalizability since menopause and comorbid health conditions affect sexual response Investigations in younger women are often in the context of comorbid conditions such as Polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS and endometriosis, thus leaving female sexual response relatively understudied in healthy reproductive-aged women Updated population-level reports of female sexual response in demographically diverse populations are needed to properly contextualize sexual disorders and inform care.
