HONEY I CAN’T DO IT TONIGHT
Sex therapists and doctors in the
young women seeking help for "performance anxiety" – a syndrome
normally associated with men.
Clinics say that the increasing expectation that women should be as
experienced as men, coupled with society’s obsession with body
image, are to blame for female patients reporting they are unable to
make love because they feel under pressure to deliver "fantastic sex".
Record numbers of women, including those in their 20s and 30s, are
seeking help for reduced sexual desire. The Sexual Dysfunction
Association has received 2500 calls from women over the past year,
a 25 per cent increase on 2004 and a massive rise from the handful it
received five years ago.
A spokeswoman for the charity, Ann Taylor, said doctors are often
dismissive of women who come to them with this problem and that
more training"Women feel they will be judged if they are not
interested in sex because there is almost a competitive element
among young women now," she said.
Dr John Ryan, who has a
menopause treatment but says that he is now treating young women.
"If you are not having sex you are considered to be an outsider," he
said.
"This has been fuelled by the whole ladette culture. There is a lot of
pressure on young women as well as men."
There are new treatments being tested which include testosterone
patches for women with low levels of the hormone and a nasal spray
that directly targets the brain’s arousal centre.
Catherine Kalamis, who has carried out research into women with low
sex drives, said that drugs are not the solution.
"Women’s levels of desire are far more complex than that." must be
given.
-DR. NAVRAJ SINGH SANDHU
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