Is it time to move on from 'hypoactive sexual desire disorder?'.

摘要

Understanding women's reluctance to engage in sexual activities with their partners has become an increasingly frequent topic of discussion and inquiry. Most research studies focus on an absence or paucity of "sexual desire," as in sexual drive/sexual hunger. That an absence of sexual desire at the outset of sexual activity (and in between sexual engagements), along with minimal sexual fantasizing, constitutes a sexual disorder in women lacks supportive evidence. Research confirms that women report sexually satisfying lives despite rarely or never sensing desire. It seems then that desire, although experienced frequently by some women, is not an essential component of sexual function, and the focus of study might more usefully be on sexual motivation-and its absence.