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Female Sexual Problems

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How Can I Prevent Female Sexual Problems?

Avoid alcohol and recreational drugs that can lessen sexual desire or impair your sexual response. Keep existing medical conditions such as diabetes under control. Discuss side effects of medications with your doctor or pharmacist in case an alternative with fewer sexual effects is available.

Relaxed, clear teaching to promote understanding of one's body and of sexual functioning, emphasizing the importance and normalcy of sexuality, is key avoiding the guilt and fear that sometimes result in sexual dysfunction.

Medically reviewed by Celia E. Dominguez, MD, August 2005.

SOURCES: American Cancer Society. Lebovic, D.; Gordon, J.; Taylor, R.; "Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility." Scrubb Hill Press, 2005.

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