PSYCHOGENIC SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS IN WOMEN: CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS
Abstract
Three clinical observations dealing with sexual problems in women as a result of influence of unfavourable psychogenic factors are described. The first case (a false sexual disorder) is a report about the woman, whose psychogenic anorgasmia was caused by the situation (a response to nonverbal stimuli during the coitus on the part of her husband). Her husband had regular sexual relations with another woman. For him the coitus, which he had with his wife after 10 months of a break in their intimacy, was extremely undesirable. It was almost by force that she made him have it with her, but she failed to feel orgasm. The second clinical observation deals with a female patient having a pathological sexual stereotype, whose formation resulted from many years of masturbation. She had been masturbating since the age of 11. From the age of 11 to 14 she simply had pleasant sensations. Since the age of 14 her masturbations have been causing orgasm. She reaches it after pressing her legs together (the myocompression variant). Different kinds of genital stimulation on the part of men (their fingers, tongue) fail to cause orgasm. During the coitus, orgasm appears only in case of its combination with pressing of her legs (myocompression masturbation). Virtually this is a pathological variant of coital anorgasmia. The third case reports about a woman, who was subjected to significant psychosexual traumatization on the part of her sexual partner. By all means he degraded and outraged her, accusing of an early start of her sexual life. It resulted in the formation of a sexual disorder, which manifested itself with different sexual dysfunctions, as well as in a long-lasting “slipping” to homosexual relations. But due to their futility with respect to formation of the family as well as because of the absence of the formed homosexual desire the patient changed over to heterosexual relations.
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