Hypoactive Sexuality Desire Disorder



Abstract

Sexual dysfunction also referred to as the sexual malfunction, which happens when an individual experiences a difficulty during any normal sexual activity. (HSDD) Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder is one of the many other sexual dysfunctions. In this paper, HSDD will be focused, in order to understand what this phrase means in medical terms. The causes of HSDD and the various situations those are associated with it, the different approaches to the treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder will also be the part of writing in the latter half of the writing.

Hypoactive Sexuality Desire Disorder

Introduction and Definition of HSDD

HSDD stands for Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; it is taken as a kind of a sexual dysfunction which is further defined as the deficiency or nonappearance of sexual fantasies. The lack of the desire for having any sort of sexual activity is a symptom of presence of HSDD. In order to classify HSDD as a disorder, it should show some distress in the personality of the person who is suffering from it and it should better not be added in the category of any other disorder, drug intake, or any medical condition.

HSDD further comes in the category of (SGID) Sexual and Gender Disorders. In the early stages It was counted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -III with the name of ISDD which stands for Inhibited Sexual Desire Disorder, the name of the disorder changed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -III-R, and now it is categorized under the category of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -IV with the name HSDD.

Diagnoses and Categories

The disorder of HSDD can be divided into several other sub-categories such as:

General: In this category, symptoms of absence of sexual desire are catered.

Situational: In situational sub-category it is defined as the lack of sexual desire for the current or the particular partner, otherwise presence of sexual desire is found by the clinicians.

Acquired: Being normal and sexually active for a period of time and then feeling the lack of desire to have sexual activities comes under the category of acquired.

Lifelong: In lifelong category, patients with low or no sexual desire throughout the life span are placed.

HSDD is considered to be the most common type of sexual disorders, which is found in women ranging in different age groups. It is thought to be the most difficult of the disorders for the doctors to treat. Typical cases of HSDD come up with the symptoms of decrease in the sexual thoughts, decrease or absence of taking the first step towards a sexual activity and the symptom that makes this disorder much obvious is the avoidance of the initiation to have a sexual activity from the partner (Demicheli, F.B et.al, 2010). There are cases which have reported that they never felt any desire for sex or had any sexual feeling or fantasy ever in their life.

What makes HSDD different from the normal sexual desire fluctuations?

Every individual have his or her own view of sexual activities, which leads to their own definition ...