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Sex Therapy in Female Sexual Dysfunction

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In the hierarchy of life, sexual pleasure is one of the pivotal drivers within all of us as human beings [1]. However, there is also a sense of survival that can overpower the need for pleasure. Hence, when people feel threatened due to the diagnosis of cancer and their survival becomes a matter of question, it is natural for their sense of pleasure associated with physical intimacy to be threatened. For women, whose sexual appetite is not the same as for men [2], the need to survive can have a more profound impact on their ability to be relaxed and have good sexual function. Additionally, women’s sexual response has been defined with a more contextual model than a linear model of desire, arousal, and orgasm [3].

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  2. Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Dept. Radiation Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Groene Hilledijk 301, Rotterdam, 3075 EA, Netherlands

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Banner, L.L. (2011). Sex Therapy in Female Sexual Dysfunction. In: Mulhall, J., Incrocci, L., Goldstein, I., Rosen, R. (eds) Cancer and Sexual Health. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-916-1_42

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