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Abstract: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) is the most common Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) affecting adult women of any age, including postmenopausal women. HSDD may have significant effects on the relationships and emotional balance of women and constitutes the most common form of FSD observed in clinical practice. HSDD is characterised by a deficiency or lack of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity, causing serious distress or interpersonal difficulties, and it is not exclusively caused by the effects of another psychiatric disorder, pathology or substance (such as medication). HSDD pathophysiology is not yet well understood, but it is thought to involve an imbalance between factors controlling inhibition and excitation of sexual desire in the brain. Many physicians are reluctant to discuss sexual desire problems with their patients for various reasons, such as insufficient knowledge of the field, an absence of efficient treatments and time constraints. Even though current treatment options are limited, a better understanding of the physiopathology behind HSDD may help develop new therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: L’histoire de la masturbation est à présent, grâce aux travaux de quelques historiens, à peu près bien connue. Aussi le regard médical posé sur la masturbation peut-il être appréhendé selon trois périodes plus ou moins successives. L’une de pathologisation à partir de 1758, l’autre de dépathologisation à compter de la fin du xix e siècle et la dernière d’utilisation thérapeutique de cette pratique. Cet usage, répandu en sexologie, trouve aussi sa place dans les traitements proposés aux auteurs d’agressions sexuelles essentiellement sur le continent nord-américain. Cet article est centré sur le recours à la masturbation dans les thérapies menées auprès de cette population. Après une présentation des techniques de la satiété et du reconditionnement orgasmique, deux formes utilisant la masturbation en vue de favoriser l’accès aux fantaisies sexuelles, cet article propose de considérer que, malgré une certaine dépathologisation, la masturbation demeure encore fortement médicalisée. En effectuant un parallèle avec le traitement de l’imagination par les médecins du xix e siècle, il tente aussi de montrer qu’au-delà de cette médicalisation, c’est bien plutôt la pathologisation des fantaisies sexuelles qui est visée. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Sexual fantasies, drawn of the erotic memory that constitutes himself the long of the sexual history of each, are indispensable, for the good sexual working. Some authors tend to consider the imagination like a « veritable intra psychic erogenous zone ». However, people who, for a reason or an another, persisted to avoid all sexual activity before the marriage and to separate all erotic velleity, donˈt they risk to have an erotic imaginary atrophied, who could sound negatively once on their sexual behaviour, after the marriage, when all is suddenly authorised for them? Through two clinical observations of secondary sexual impotence, we are going to try to show the ominous consequences of such a relentlessness (imposed by the education, the social morals or the religion), against sexual stimulation, on the sexuality. These consequences are more easily observable in men, of the fact of their active role, in the sexual activity. Our purpose is to insist on the necessity to explore the sexual history owing all sexual dysfunction, and to place it in the biographic setting of the impatient; but also and especially to attract the attention on the importance of a precocious sex education, adapted to age, to the personal maturation and the cultural and educational context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: In the clinical experience of sexual disease, we often have to investigate sexual fantasies of patients. Our group has felt the need to class the sexual fantasies as modern clinical rules, beginning from a retrospective examination of cases treated by medical sexual service. Then we tried to make uniform the ways to collect sexual reveries. We examined 326 clinical cases. Sixteen of them were rejected because of the absence or insufficiency in the medical history of sexual fantasies. By means of the analysis of 308 cases, we made a classification of fantasies according to various criteria: depending on time, depending to the type of sexual activity represented in them, the relationship established by partners and their ability to share individual fantasies, the role represented by him/herself within his/her imagination. Afterward we suggested a possible use of sexual fantasies, in the therapy of hypoactive sexual desire disease in women. The goal of treatment is therefore to enhance the sexual sphere, using the fantasies to bring back the erotism in the partner and in the relationship. To perform this, anticipatory fantasies can be created using in them the partner''s itself. The aim of the therapy to overcome the decline of desire is to bring back arousal in the relationship, in the person involved and in the situation in order to obtain an improved sexual response. We analyzed 52 cases, four of them gave up the therapy after a few meetings, while the others ended it. Only nine of these 48 obtained a small improvement, whereas the others returned to the whole normality, tested also with FSFI. We are currently starting research on sexual fantasies in Italy. This for both an updated finding survey and to build a clinical tool like a repertoire of fantasies in order to facilitate the collection of sexual fantasies. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]