According to the latest National Survey of Sexual Health (2009), 9.6% of women experience a loss of sexual desire and only a third of them see a specialist, be it a gynecologist, psychologist, psychiatrist, sexologist, etc. However, some experts say that between 21% and 50% could present a loss of libido at some point in their lives.However, it is important to note that you should not talk about lack of sexual desire as long as this situation can not be prolonged for at least six months.
However, the absence of sexual desire may have different causes, some physical and other personal information. In the case of women consulting a doctor about this problem, the first thing is that the cause is not hormonal, for example, by low estrogen, such as during menopause.
It is also common during pregnancy or breast-feeding women libido is diminished.However, in most cases the origin of this sexual dysfunction is usually psychological or derived from their own relationship. Sometimes even both, the physical and psychological are given.
Work and household duties
The incorporation of women into the workplace and in particular the performance of functions of high responsibility has increased in recent decades the prevalence of lack of sexual desire. Job stress, having to combine it with housework (women engaged in these four times longer than man) and childcare, not finding time to strengthen communication and the relationship with the partner, They lead in the best case, to comply with the implied obligation of marriage but with sex-based routine, and at worst to delay the time to go to sleep for not doing while her partner, looking all kinds of excuses. But in any case the distance is growing.
Marital conflict
Experts say that in most cases the lack of sexual desire in women lies in the conflict with the couple. There are people who marry them or another awakening sexual desire or passion. Others have had a poor sex education, which implies the existence of taboos and the imposition of limits on sex or inability to excite the couple. In other cases a power struggle by the home government is established ...
There are many situations that can lead to alienation or confrontation and dissatisfaction in any case. And if to this is added the lack of communication and lack of complicity, the problem grows.