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1. Hypoactive sexual disorder A persistently reduced sexual drive or libido, not attributable to depression where there is
reduced desire, sexual activity and reduced sexual fantasy.
2. Sexual aversion disorder An avoidance of or aversion to genital sexual contact
3. Female sexual arousal disorder A failure of arousal and lubrication/swelling response.
4. Male erectile disorder Inability to gain an erection or inability to maintain an erection once it has occurred.
5. Female orgasmic disorder A lengthy delay or absence of orgasm following a satisfactory excitatory phase. The GP must take
into account the patient's age, previous sexual experience and adequacy of sexual stimulation.
6. Male orgasmic disorder A lengthy delay or absence of orgasm following normal excitation, erection and adequate
stimulation.
7. Premature ejaculation Ejaculation occurring with only minimal stimulation, either before penetration or soon afterwards, in
either case ceratinly before the patient wishes it. Again the GP must take into account the patient's age, previous sexual
experience, extent of sexual stimulation and 'novelty' of the sexual partner.
8. Dyspareunia (not due to general medical condition) Recurrent pain associated with intercourse, but in women not due to
vaginismus, poor lubrication, and in women and men not due to drugs or other physical causes
9. Vaginismus An involuntary or persistent spasm of the muscles of the outer third of the vagina, again not attributable to
physiological effects of physical causes. Vaginismus may be either lifelong or recent; generalised to all sexual encounters or
specific to certain partners or situations.
10. Secondary sexual dysfunction Dysfunction secondary to illness eg hypothyrodism, mental disorder eg depression, or drugs eg
fluoextine.
11. Paraphilias Exhibitionism (exposure of genitals to strangers). Fetishism (finding nonliving objects erotic eg women's
underwear). Paedophilia. Frotteurism (fantasies, urges or behviour centred around rubbing self against non-consenting other).
Sexual masochism and sadism. Transvestic festishism (cross-dressing for erotic pleasure). Voyeurism (fantasies, urges or behviour
centred around watching non-consenting others undressing, or having sex).
12. Gender identity disorder Strong and persistent identification of the self with another gender. Persistent dissatisfaction
with own sex. Desire to participate in stereotyped games and pastimes of opposite sex. Preference for cross-dressing. May insist
that they are wrong sex. May occur in children, adolescents and adults, (Green, 1985). Not concurrent with physical intersex
condition. Aetiology was thought to involve aberrant psychological conditioning, but gender identity may be more defined by
organic causes in the brain (as Swaab's work has suggested) , than the postnatal environment
Source: http://www.priory.com/sex.htm#Classification entered into Wikipedia 21 May
2004
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