[Female sexuality and its disorders from the psychological viewpoint]

Female sexuality is determined to a far greater extent by the woman's emotional receptiveness to sexual feelings than by her physiological reactions. Concerning sexual symptoms, female patients suffer much more from a lack of sexual desire and from a deficit in sexually stimulating feelings and sexual pleasure than from insufficient genital functions. The following sexual symptoms are presented: sexual arousal disorders, orgasm disorders, vaginismus, dyspareunia, sexual desire disorders, sexual aversion/sexual phobia. Sex consultation and sex therapy are recommended as preferential treatment options.