Sexual Dysfunctions And Problems Can Be Caused By…

• Gender identity disorders
• Behavioral and psychological disorder
• Paraphilias (disorders of sexual preference
• Sexual dysfunctions 

Gender Identity Disorders:

• It is a problem in gender identity disorder like characteristics of female gender and parts of the male gender.
• Trans sexualism 
• Gender identity disorder of childhood
• Dual-role transvestism
• Intersexuality

     Transsexualism:

• A person has discomfort regarding one’s anatomical sex and gender and inappropriate feelings regarding their secondary sexual characteristics and adopts the other sex( gender).
• The diagnosis makes after puberty.

     Treatment:

• Sex-change to the desired gender.

Also read: Hormone Replacement Therapy Male To Female

     Gender-Identity Disorder of Childhood:

• This disorder similar to transsexualism, and it seems in 2 to 4 years of age. 

     Dual-role Transvestism:

• This person is wearing clothes of the opposite sex for the experience of temporary enjoyment but without permanent sex changes.

     Inter-Sexuality:

• The patient has gross anatomical or physiological aspects of the other sex. These aspects can be
• External genitals, e.g., pseudo-hermaphroditism.
• Gonads, e.g., ovotestes. ( organ producing both ova and spermatozoa)
• Internal sex organs, e.g., true hermaphrodite. ( both male and female organs)
• Hormonal disturbances, 
• Chromosomes, e.g., Turner’s syndrome, Klinefelter’s syndrome.

Behavioral and Psychological Disorder:

      Homosexuality:

• opposite to heterosexuality, is the sexual relationship between persons of the same sex.

      Bisexuality :

• It is of two types: 
• Male homosexuality(gay), and 
• Female homosexuality (lesbian).

      Treatment:

• Behavior therapy
• Supportive psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Paraphilias (Disorders of Sexual Preference):

 Sexual arousal occurs with a nonhuman object like atypical things, imagination, fantasies, and any situation not part of sexual arousal.

      Fetishism:

• Sexual arousal occurs with nonliving objects. 
• The non-living object magically becomes phallic for the man. Saw them in the male. 
• The fetish object will be gloves, shoes, brasiers, underpants, stockings, etc.

      Fetishistic Transvestism:

• This disorder occurs exclusively in heterosexual males. In that person like to wear clothes of the opposite gender and for sexual arousal.  

     Exhibitionism:

• In this disorder, the person shows one’s genitalia in front of a stranger by masturbation for orgasm.
• Often seen in the male.

     Voyeurism:

• Observing a naked person or engaging in sexual activity. 

      Frotteurism:

• It is touching and rubbing against an unsuspecting, non-consenting person (usually of the other sex).
• Frottage is often employed in crowded protests because she cannot suspect that frottage can commit there. We have seen this in adolescent males. 

     Pedophilia:

• Pedophilia is a persistent or recurrent adult (age > 16 years and at least five years old then the child) in sexual activity with prepubertal children, either heterosexual. It may be associated with sexual sadism. 

     Sexual Sadism:

• In this disordered person getting sexual arousal by humiliating and giving extreme pain or psychological pain to others such as sexual partners.
• It is by providing physical injuries, cutting, stabbing, rape, and killing.

      Sexual Masochism:

• It is the opposite of sexual sadism in that sexual arousal occur by giving physical and psychological pain such as humiliation on oneself by other people.

     Zoophilia:

• Sexual activities with the animals. 
• It is a rare condition. 
• Other Paraphilias
• These include sexual arousal with urine (urophilia); feces (coprophilia);
• enemas (klismaphilia); corpses (necrophilia), among many others.