Sexual Disorder - Biological, Psychological, and Social

Not only are there multiple origins for HSDD in men, but the theoretical view of the observer regarding sexual issues as a whole make understanding sexual problems like HSDD even more difficult.

One might look first at differing points of view about sexuality in general. Some view sexual difficultness from primarily a biomedical position and regard sex as natural. Kolodny et al. wrote: to determine sex as natural means just as an individual cannot be taught to sweat or how to digest food, a man cannot be taught to have an erection, nor can a woman be taught to lubricate vaginally. Because the reflex pathways of sexual functioning are inborn does not mean that they are immune from disruption due to impaired health, cultural conditioning, or interpersonal stress. Some have reworded naturally to mean automatically, without purpose or without effort .

Others look at sexuality and see the absence of intimacy as being crucial to understanding the psychological origins of many sexual difficulties. One can in particular value (and learn from) the implications of the absence of intimacy for sexual relationships generally, and sexual desire in particular, when regarding the plight of those with a serious mental illness who, by the very nature of the disorder, also have significant intimacy difficulties. The roots of intimacy difficulties are in the patient's past . . . this . . . needs to be thoroughly explored because it may well have included turmoil in his or her family-of-origin, as well as a shortage of love and nurturing connections which are so often a rehearsal for love relationships later in life. As well, the patient's past may not have involved the experimental love and sexual relationships of adolescence in which so much learning takes place about oneself and others.

Yet others look at sexual matters from a social constructionist point of veiw. Tiefer wrote that the primary influences on women's sexuality are the norms of the culture, those interiorized by women themselves and those imposed by institutions and enacted by significant others in women's lives.

It may well be that these viewpoints do not apply equally to men and women, and that sexuality in men is, for example, more natural. However, even as the word natural is implemented to men, it does not explain the contribution to sexual problems of either intimacy issues or cultural variations in sexual behavior.

During development and growth, there is interaction with the environment that builds up experience and potentiation of sexual stimuli. The social and cultural environment sets sexual expression and the meaning of sexual experience .

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