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While physical problems can keep a woman from experiencing orgasm, emotions can play a role, too. Some sex researchers say that anxiety and depression can prevent a woman from progressing along the sexual response cycle, says Ingber. Feelings of fear, guilt, distraction, or loss of control can also affect orgasm. Similarly to men with erectile dysfunction, women can sometimes have problems achieving or maintaining adequate blood flow, says Ingber.
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Treatments and Therapies to Help Women Reach Orgasm
Whether the barrier to orgasm is physical, psychological, or a bit of both, there are many ways for doctors and therapists to help you get past it.
Behavioral Interventions
Directed masturbation, sex education, and behavioral therapy are some of the means a woman might want to investigate if she cannot reach climax.
Women may also want to try different sexual devices, such as a vibrator to provide increased clitoral stimulation or a dildo crafted for better stimulation of the G-spot. “Additionally, vacuum devices can be used to improve libido and arousal,” says Ingber. “This applies gentle suction to the clitoris.”
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Consulting a sex therapist could be very helpful, too. Sex therapists are specially trained licensed counselors who may be psychologists, psychiatrists, or other mental health professionals. They aim to help you get to the bottom of your sexual issues. Your therapist will help you work through emotional issues that may be contributing to sexual issues, according to Drogo Montague, MD, a urologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. They can help you see if issues in your relationship are causing you stress, he adds.
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Medical Treatments
If behavioral methods are not working and a woman is interested in other interventions, solutions associated with male erectile dysfunction may help.
For premenopausal women with HSDD, two FDA-approved therapies, flibanserin (Addyi) and bremelanotide (Vyleesi), may be effective, says Ingber. The former is a daily pill, and the latter is an injectable medicine for use as needed, he adds.
Acupuncture
Although it is still unclear if and why acupuncture helps sexual health, Baljit Khamba, ND, an assistant professor of naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University and a naturopathic doctor in San Diego, believes that the key may be acupuncture’s ability to restore qi. Qi refers to the life energy that Chinese medicine practitioners believe enhances health and libido.
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Additional reporting by Dennis Thompson Jr and Ashley Welch.
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