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To: BigKNY3 who wrote (6973)	2/9/1999 11:38:00 PM
From: Little Gorilla	Respond to of 9523

Sexual Problems Felt by 43% of Women, 31% of Men, Study Finds Chicago, Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Forty-three percent of women and 31 percent of men report they have sexual problems, including trouble having orgasm, lack of arousal, pain during intercourse, and performance anxiety, a new study shows. Single people, particularly young women and older men, are more likely to have sexual problems, the researchers said. The study, the first of its kind since the Kinsey study on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female almost 50 years ago, appears in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association. People with sexual problems rarely receive medical treatment for their condition, which can severely reduce their quality of life, the researchers said. Sexual dysfunction should be considered a ''significant public health concern,'' they said. Scientists have made advances recently in understanding how sexual response takes place in the body, and new drugs and medical products have recently been introduced that offer help, particularly for men with erectile disorders. Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra became the best-selling new medication when it hit the shelves almost a year ago, joining other treatments from Vivus Inc. and Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. Additional therapies are under development from MacroChem Corp., Novartis AG and others, while Zonagen Inc. is awaiting U.S. government approval for its medication. In the new study, researchers from the University of Chicago and their colleagues analyzed answers to sexual questions from 3,159 people between the ages of 18 and 59 gathered from the National Health and Social Life Survey in 1992. Sexual Problems Sexual problems tended to decrease for most women as they aged, while they increased for men, the study found. The higher the number of partners, coupled with spells of no sexual activity and inexperience, generates stressful sexual encounters for young women - although a similar effect isn't seen with men, the researchers said. For men, decreased sexual interest and ability stem from physiological changes that occur as part of the aging process, they said. Both men and women with college degrees reported fewer sexual problems, including low sexual desire, problems achieving orgasm, pain and anxiety. Marriage also appeared to reduce the risk of sexual problems, the study found. ''Married women and men are clearly at lower risk of experiencing sexual symptoms than their nonmarried counterparts,'' the researchers wrote. Not surprisingly, sexual traumas -- including abuse, as well as deteriorating social position, economic stress, and poor health -- impaired sexual functioning, the study found. ''Sexual problems are widespread in society and are influenced by both health-related and psychosocial factors,'' the researchers said. ''The role of the latter implies that stress- inducing events, due to either individual or social sources, can affect sexual functioning in both men and women.'' NYSE/AMEX delayed 20 min. NASDAQ delayed 15 min.