What Is Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder?

Sexual hypoactivity is a state characterized by a decrease in the ability to respond to sex and the level of initial sexual behavior. This is manifested by a lack of sexual desire, sexual interests, and related sexual thinking or sexual fantasies. Women are more likely to report a loss of sexual desire than men. Loss of sexual desire can occur at any age, regardless of gender, and even men in their 30s often claim to have reduced libido and are accompanied by a series of secondary symptoms, including emotional problems and even physical symptoms. Treatment is mainly directed at the cause, supplemented by medications, while psychotherapy and sexy concentration training are used.

Basic Information

Causes of decreased libido and common diseases

Emotion

When a person is in a bad mood, sexual desire is liable to temporarily decrease, especially in the severe state of extreme sadness, horror, depression and despair. Sexual desire may be significantly affected or even completely lost. In view of this, when the lover is in a bad mood, the first problem is to help him or her to eliminate bad emotions and do good mental health care. At this time, you should not have sex. If a lover can cope with it barely, it will not only arouse pleasure, but also lead to sexual apathy, and it will damage the relationship between husband and wife.

2. Nutrition

Nutrition is the material basis of sex. The research results show that the lack of important elements such as protein and zinc can cause sexual dysfunction, especially affecting men. On the contrary, adequate and comprehensive nutrition, especially eating more foods containing high-quality protein, multivitamins and zinc, can maintain normal levels of sexual function.

3. Tobacco and alcohol

Long-term heavy smoking is more likely to cause impotence than non-smokers. Long-term alcoholism can reduce sexual function and decrease sexual desire. According to research, heavy drinking can cause vasodilation, lack of blood flow and pleasure in the penis, which can lead to decreased sexual desire. However, the effects of tobacco and alcohol on sexual function are reversible. Most people's sexual functions can gradually return to normal levels after quitting smoking and alcohol.

4. Drugs

Taking certain drugs for a long time or in large quantities can cause sexual dysfunction and can even cause impotence in men and sexual apathy in women. There are many types of drugs that affect sexual function. Among them, important and common are: reserpine, rafumu, propranolol, chlorpromazine, prozinc, etc., antidepressants, and anticancer drugs. If long-term radiation treatment can also lead to decreased libido.

5. Living conditions

Living in a chaotic, poorly ventilated, and overcrowded environment will not only cause a bad mood, but also lack of oxygen to the brain due to insufficient indoor fresh air, which will affect sexual function and reduce sexual desire. In particular, several generations living in the same room or sleeping in the same bed with their children will form invisible psychological pressure and easily cause hyposexuality.

6. Season, temperature

In the winter and spring seasons where the temperature is low, most people have strong sexual desire, especially in spring; and in summer, sweaty, sexual desire often weakens temporarily. Some women's sexual desire is closely related to the menstrual cycle, often increasing a few days before menstrual cramps, and some are stronger about a week after menstruation. Most women experience some loss of libido during pregnancy. Men's sexual desire also changes cyclically, but most of them are less obvious.

7. Age

Is an important factor affecting sexual desire. Most men's sexual desire reaches its peak after puberty, and it begins to weaken at the age of 30 to 40. From about 50 years old, the weakening is obvious, but most of them can be maintained to 70 years old or even longer. The sexual desire of a woman does not reach its peak until the age of 30 to 40, gradually decreases after menopause, and begins to weaken significantly around the age of 60.

8. Incentives, history of sexual life

In addition to the internal causes of sexual desire and the effects of sex hormones, external stimulation is also important. Life is monotonous or rarely interacts with others, never watching books and movies and television about love, and not talking about related topics, that is, lack of sexual factors, sexual desire is suppressed and at a low level. Long-term asexual life or those who rarely get pleasure and satisfaction can reduce sexual desire. At the same time, frequent sexual life can also lead to decreased sexual desire.

9. Feelings

Human beings are different from other animals in that sexual desire is not simply a biological instinct. It is mostly caused by love. Therefore, the relationship between the husband and wife appears to be impaired, especially if it has reached the level of rupture, it will become bored with the other party, and most of them will lose their sexual desire. Therefore, the harmonious sex life stems from the harmonious relationship between husband and wife.

10. Health condition

The impact of health on sexual desire is both important and complex. Because only people who are physically and mentally healthy can maintain a high level of sexual desire for a long time. However, there are some patients with severe diseases who also maintain strong sexual desire as well as healthy people.

Differential diagnosis of hyposexuality

It is often difficult to identify the organic and psychosocial causes of hyposexuality. Only a large number of clinical diagnostic methods can be applied, and accurate experimental determinations cannot be performed. Generally speaking, the decline of the situational sexual desire is psychosocial, and most of the biological factors that cause the decline of sexual desire are often persistent and persistent.

Libido test

For the complex etiology of this disease, special tests are performed, including sex hormone levels, prostate, erection measurement, penile blood flow, blood glucose, blood pressure, and so on.

Loss of libido treatment principles

The principle of the treatment of hyposexuality should be based on the treatment of the cause. At the same time, the use of psychotherapy and sexy concentration training can hope to obtain good results.

Cause treatment

People with reduced libido caused by depression, drugs or organic factors need to actively treat the primary disease.

2. Psychotherapy and emotional concentration training

Most patients can get good results with this method. However, the following points need to be done before training:

(1) Determine whether the patient has the motivation to seek treatment. If a person with reduced sexual desire does not have an interest in treatment, the treatment will not work at all, and it may even be counterproductive.

(2) Help patients to correctly understand and treat the condition. When starting treatment, try to find out the cause. If the cause is unknown, the patient should be pointed out that successful treatment is based on changes in current attitudes, desires, or behaviors. Avoid excessive wishing

3) The focus of treatment should be to improve the sexual relationship between couples, not to indicate who is "healthy" and who is "ill."

(4) The treatment starts from various aspects, promotes the spouses' communication and discusses the autonomy of sexual activity, pays attention to the exchange of emotions, does not use sexual arousal or sexual intercourse as the training purpose, and encourages the formation of a natural relationship that both parties can initiate sexual activity.

3. Drug treatment

(1) There are no clear drugs that can significantly improve sexual desire. If there is a clear clinical manifestation and basis of testosterone reduction, testosterone undecanoate can be supplemented, but the indications and contraindications for application must be well grasped.

(2) Chinese medicine can be used with ginseng, epimedium, cooked land, staghorn gum, wolfberry, decoction, 1 dose daily, for low libido caused by yin and yang deficiency.