BI publishes female sexual disorder survey

Germany's Boehringer Ingleheim has published results from the PRESIDE survey of more than 31,000 women, showing that hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most commonly-reported sexual problem in adult women, in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

In the cross-sectional, population-based, nationally-representative survey of 31,581 adult US women, 44.2% of them reported experiencing a sexual problem of some kind. Low desire was most common, reported in 38.7% of the respondents; low arousal (26.1%) and orgasm difficulty (20.5%) were less frequent. Of all the women surveyed, 22.8% said they had sexually-related personal distress. Low desire was the most common distressing sexual problem, affecting 10% of respondents. It was twice as common as distress associated with arousal (5.4%) or orgasm problems (4.7%).