T09-P-14 Persistent genital arousal in women: about two case reports

Abstract

Female sexual psychophysiology research suggests that women are capable of greater sexual responsiveness than previously thought and can experience genital response in the absence of a subjective experience of sexual arousal. There are some women who report persistent genital arousal, both with and without accompanying distress, providing an idea for dissociation between genital and psychological sexual response. In this article, the authors describe two case reports of women with unprovoked genital arousal, intrusive and troubling genital sensations that did not dissipate with one or many orgasms and persisted for many hours or days. These two women assessed at the Clinical Sexology Department of the Coimbra University Hospital had average age of about thirty years old and were married. They both described a bad relationship with their husbands, refusing to have sex because the arousal triggered by sexual activity, persist after several orgasms in unpleasant way.