The World Health Organization

de-fineas sexual dysfunction as “the var-ious ways in which an individual isunable to participate in a sexual re-lationship as he or she would wish. ” In 1988, the Sexual Function Health Council of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease (AFUD) provided the first consensus–based definition of female sexual dysfunction (FSD). This classification divides FSD into 5 cate-gories: hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), sexual aversion disorder, sexual arousal disorder (FSAD), female orgasmic disorder (FOD) and sexual pain disorder.1 This classification is based on the linear model of sexual response described by the work of Masters and Johnson and revised by Kaplan.2 In this model, Masters and Johnson assume