Sadly, I also know that for every patient that comes in here to find a solution for their problems, there are hundreds if not thousands of women that can’t get here. And I know that there are so many women who have concerns and questions about what is going on with their own sexuality, and would like to hear a better answer than “it’s all in your head”.

We, at The Medical Center for Female Sexuality, would like to invite you to take the time to ask us your questions and our staff will do our best to come up with a helpful answer.  We will take a question a week from those that are emailed to us at info@centerforfemalesexuality.com, and answer it for you right here, on the Center’s blog. We will be sure to keep you anonymous, so you never need to worry about having your personal issues exposed unwillingly.  So please, send us your questions, and we will do our best to answer as many as we can.

So start sending in those questions!

Sunday Magazine

November 29, 2009

Dear Editor:

Daniel Bergner’s article in the Times magazine section, Women Who Want to Want, once again poignantly expresses both the deep distress felt by women with the loss of their libido as well as the complexity of understanding and treating the condition. Women’s loss of desire, while experienced sharply and distinctly, can be extraordinarily varied in both its primary cause,  its contributing factors and in the range of treatment options. 

Women’s sexual problems, of necessity, must be assessed by integrating the emotional, physical, chemical and  psychosocial perspectives in order for us to be successful in treating them.  Most often, as your article states, recommended treatment protocols are unilateral; the underlying assumption being that one “magic bullet,” should alleviate the problem. Often we find that this leaves women who have tried a single approach feeling as though they have failed;  and more hopeless, resigned and unhappy.   

Only with an integrated approach to diagnosing and treating women with female sexual dysfunction, more will have a better chance at achieving what they are looking for, a full and satisfying sex life.  While critics may believe this is yet another “luxury” health problem, we’re certain none of them would want to settle for a tepid sex life.  And if what we see in our practice is any indication, they’re in good company. 

Bat Sheva Marcus LMSW, MPH, PhD

Clinical Director

Medical Center for Female Sexuality

2975 Westchester Avenue

Purchase, New York 10577

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New York, New York 10065

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