My husband has no sexual issues that would need him to take a pill. My reasons for sexual dysfunction are ages 4, 2 and 1! Haha! Sex is an enormous stress reliever and also helps one to fall asleep. It brings you closer to your husband physically and emotionally. Oh and it feels great too! I think the focus on erectile dysfunction and on men in general is that sex is still a guy thing! But procreation seems to be a woman thing. Look a the cover of a man's magazine. Do you ever see "Men and Infertility - the emotional consequences" type headings? Heck no! That doesn't sell! You see it on women's mags all the time. Magazines like Men's Health are all about sex and pleasure. Never about disease or child rearing - two major consequences of sex. Even in 2008! Men want it, need it, can't help it, are dying for it all the time, they think about it every 8 seconds... we know all the stats. Women are supposed to roll their eyes and give in to him and hope that'll keep him happy for a week or two. Our magazines tell us how to pleasure him, rather than how to pleasure ourselves. I cannot stand that thinking! Women like sex just as much as men! A man has to have an orgasm to procreate! Women do not! A woman's orgasm is for pleasure only! And why am I putting exclamation points everywhere! Because this makes me annoyed, that's why! When researchers and drug companies, and yes, doctors, start to take women and sex more seriously, then hopefully women with sexual issues will be given the same attention as men. But women need to take it more seriously too. Women need to stop acting like they are doing their husbands/partners a favor by "giving in and getting it over with". Or concentrating on sex only as a means to conceive a baby. If a woman is not happy with her sex life, it's her responsibility to do something about it. She owes it to herself and to her partner. I don't believe women are blameless here. Women need to up the ante a little bit. Start whining about sex more, like men! If we don't talk about our sexual needs, then who is to know there even IS a need? Men have been bleating on about sexual pleasure since the beginning of time. We know - we get it: men love sex. But so do women and we need to be as blatant about it as they are. That doesn't mean we all have to sound like obsessive nymphomaniacs - but let's admit sex is great and that we enjoy it. And when it goes wrong, let's tell our doctors and healthcare professionals that we want it fixed.

Susan, I agree! I'm not sure how many times I've been to the doctor, or my nurse practitioner, and they ask all kinds of personal questions, so they can check a box on their form (relationship status, drug use, date of last period, etc), then they perform a physical exam (most personal of all!), but then...there is a severe lack of discussion about what all of these have to do with each other (the relationship status question and the physical exam). The connection is, you, the patient, are in a relationship, you are a sexual being; yet, there is no discussion about sexuality. I'm not talking about a counseling session, but a little more discussion about the relationship itself, even current research or resources, would be helpful. This is a little personal, but I remember as a young woman that I went in to the GYN for my first-ever appointment, obtained birth control (I had my first "serious" boyfriend), and the doctor NEVER talked to me about being in a sexual relationship. Probably mentioned that we should use condoms to protect against STIs. What a perfect (missed) opportunity for her to talk with me about what I'm possibly feeling in this serious relationship, where to go for help if I need it, what the difference is between a healthy vs. unhealthy/abusive relationship. And on and on. I would hope that doctors now are asking the young women more about their relationships, how they feel about their bodies, etc.