Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy by Weiner Linda Avery-Clark Constance

Author:Weiner, Linda,Avery-Clark, Constance
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Female Orgasmic Disorder

Definition

Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD) is the inability to experience an orgasm in most, if not all, sexual opportunities. It is also defined as experiencing a reduced intensity of orgasmic sensation in most, if not all, sexual opportunities. This reduced intensity of sensation is new in DSM-5 and reinforces the fact that orgasm is not an all or nothing experience for women. The new diagnostic criteria include both physiological alterations AND the subjective experience of intensity. This is because, unlike male orgasm, female orgasm has no externally irrefutable signal.

Although approximately 6–15% of women who experience orgasmic difficulties report achieving orgasm too quickly, this is not included under the DSM-5 classification system for FOD.

Even more so than with FSIAD, publications on FOD frequently fail to emphasize women’s own experience of orgasmic concern, or lack thereof, in the diagnosis of the dysfunction. However, as the prevalence statistics below indicate, women, themselves, are often not particularly distressed by what others may label as their orgasmic difficulties.

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