14 Factors That Cause Female Sexual Dysfunction!

1. Diabetes

Results show that Type 1 Diabetes causes decreased lubrication leading to sexual dysfunction.

Depression seems to be a significant predictor in these cases. It could also be a side effect of prescribed

medications.

2. Arthritis

More often than not, the pain related to arthritis is one of the major causes of sexual dysfunction in

women. This can be taken care of by adequate exercise and medications to reduce joint pains.

3. Vaginal Atrophy

This is a condition caused due to decreased blood flow to the vagina, decrease in estrogen levels and

decreased lubrication in the Vagina.

4. Cervical / Ovarian / Other Cancers

The treatment of cancers causes sexual dysfunction rather than the cancer itself. Treatments such as

chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation to cervix, vagina or uterus, surgery for cancers in the pelvic

area and side effects of the medicines used to treat cancers, all of which may cause sexual dysfunction

in women.

5. Heart Disease

Hypertension as well as heart medicines are known in many cases to cause female sexual dysfunction.

6. Neurological Disorders

Neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis, cause sexual dysfunction in women due to the nerve

supply to the genitals being interrupted.

7. Urinary Problems

LUTS or lower urinary tract symptoms causes’ urinary urgency and frequency, overactive bladder

syndrome, and interstitial cystitis leading to sexual dysfunction in women.

8. Headaches

Coital Cephalgia or sex headaches are rare but a sure phenomenon. Women also have something called

hormonal headaches. Sex headaches are more common in women who already have migraines or

tension headaches causing female sexual dysfunction.

9. High Cholesterol Levels

High levels of cholesterol cause plaques to form in the arteries to the genitals causing female sexual

dysfunction.

10. Hypertension

Prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women of the same age, is twice due to hypertension than due to

normotensiveness.

11. Smoking

Smoking cigarettes causes reduced blood flow throughout the body and obviously to the sexual organs

too causing female sexual dysfunction.

12. Alcoholism

Alcohol is certainly known to invoke sexual desire but works in reverse as far as sexual performance is

concerned and is considered to be a cause of female sexual dysfunction too.

13. Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is also largely associated with depression both of which are harmful to a woman’s sexual

health.

14. Gynecological Diseases

Since a woman’s sexual dysfunction is considered to be more complex than of a man, for obvious

reasons, any problem related to any gynecological part of a woman can cause female sexual

dysfunction.