PSAS
Sexual syndrome that takes joy out of lifeWhen Jean Lund, a 51-year-old office manager and mother of three, told her gynecologist the problem, he snickered and said, 'You're every man's dream.'
'I wanted to punch him,' she recalled. 'I'm suffering here, and he's laughing, `Hardy-har-har.' So I looked him in the face and said, `How would you like to walk around on the verge of orgasm every second?' And he shut up.'
Lund has a rare condition that prominent sexual medicine researchers have just 'discovered' and begun to document. They have given it a name -- Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome -- and are trying to develop treatments for it, so far with patchy success.
The syndrome is the opposite of the usual female sexual complaint -- difficulty getting aroused. Instead, patients sustain unrelenting physical arousal, no matter how many orgasms they have. They are not nymphomaniacs; they do not experience desire. Rather, they feel the vaginal congestion and pulsation of arousal, and it is not about pleasure -- far from it.
* Ray, 11/11/2003 01:40:43 PM
