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Female Sexual Arousal Disorder

The work group is recommending that this disorder be subsumed into a new disorder:  Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder in Women.

Please see the rationale for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder in Women.

Please see severity for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder in Women.

 

Female Sexual Arousal Disorder

A. Persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until completion of the sexual activity, an adequate lubricationswelling response of sexual excitement.

B. The disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.

C. The sexual dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (except another Sexual Dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.

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