ABSTRACT
Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is indeed a multicausal and multidimensional problem. It is age related, progressive and highly prevalent, affecting 20-45% of women.1,2 For many women it is physically disconcerting, emotionally dis tressing and socially disruptive.3 The mediagenic emphasis on high-caliber sexual performances
further increases the gap between an individual’ s reality and expectation of full sexual satisfaction. At the same time, the increasing discrepancy between the biological age and the age one feels psychologically and emotionally increases the expectations about a high quality of life, inclusive of sexuality, until the late decades of life. The physician is therefore increasingly requested to be competent in giving appropriate therapeutic answers when FSD is complained of: unfortunately, the general lack of a formal training makes this task particularly difficult.
