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New Classifications For Female Sexual Dysfunction Devised.

Women's Health Weekly

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2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new classification is in place to help women manage sexual dysfunction.

According to the December 2001 issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource, the new guidelines organize symptoms of sexual dysfunction into four groups in order to classify what is normal, what isn't and how doctors can go about treating it.

Hypoactive sexual desire means that a woman has poor sex drive (libido). This is probably the most common type of sexual dysfunction. There may be a medical cause such as menopause, or it may be a reversible situation, but decreased desire can also be a variant of normal at certain times.

Sexual arousal disorder is the inability to ...

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