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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(9):659-661; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk175
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Female Sexual Desire—Beyond Testosterone

Patricia A. Ganz, Gail A. Greendale

Affiliations of authors: Department of Health Services, School of Public Health (PAG) and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (PAG), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (PAG, GAG)

Correspondence to: Patricia A. Ganz, MD, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles Young Dr South, Rm A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900 (e-mail: pganz@ucla.edu).

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Sexual dysfunction is common among the US population with a prevalence that is greater for women than men (43% versus 31%) (1). In this setting, a low level of desire is associated with low levels of arousal and sexual excitement, leading to infrequent orgasms and reduced sexual satisfaction (2). During the past 10 years, Basson (3) and Basson et al. (4) have reconceptualized the female sexual response to account for the complexity of female sexual desire and arousal, which does not follow the linear model of discrete phases of sexual response first proposed by Masters and Johnson (5) and Kaplan (6). Instead, a circular intimacy-based sexual response cycle was proposed (Fig. 1), with overlapping phases of variable order. As noted by Basson (2), women participate in sexual activity for diverse reasons, including a desire . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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