Little is known about the association between the sexual functioning of each partner in a heterosexual married couple.
By using a community-based survey of Hong Kong Chinese couples in 2012, this study attempted to examine the relationship between female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and their husbands' erectile dysfunction (ED). Among the 1518 female and 1059 male respondents, 944 sexually active couples were eligible for the analysis with mean ages of 39.3 ± 6.8 years (range 21-50) for the wives and 43.6 ± 8.6 years (range 18-80) for the husbands. 27.0% of the wives reported at least one form of FSD and 5.0% of the husbands reported ED. After adjusting for the female's age and other risk factors, the total and domain scores of FSD were not associated with her husband's ED except for physical pain during sexual intercourse. Therefore, whether to screen the partner's sexual function depends on the age of the female clients.
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Zhang H, Fan S, Yip P. Are you the author?
Renmin University of China, Department of Social Work, Beijing, China.
Reference: J Sex Marital Ther. 2014 Dec 16:0. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1080/0092623X.2014.996931
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25514566