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Sexual Behavior in Pregnancy

Abstract: This chapter reports on a study of the sexuality of pregnant women. In general, the results showed a linear decrease in sexual interest, frequency of coitus, and frequency of orgasm over the course of pregnancy. These results should be viewed with caution, however, for a number of reasons. First, this is a retrospective study. Within a few days of delivery, women were asked to recall their sexual patterns over the course of their pregnancy. Such retrospective reports of events in the distant past are often distorted by selective memory and by the active memory of more recent events. Since the subjects were generally physically uncomfortable and therefore uninterested in sex during the ninth month of their pregnancy, their reports of decreased sexual activity during the first months of pregnancy may have been influenced by this recent memory. Secondly, the interviewers were all young males. It is reasonable to expect that many women, immediately after delivery, would be reluctant to describe themselves as highly interested in sex to young male strangers.

Sexual side-effects of clomipramine (Anafranil).

Abstract: An attempt was made to measure the effects of depressive illness and of clomipramine (Anafranil) therapy in doses of 30 mg and 75 mg daily on sexual appetite and performance. A special questionnaire was devised to gather information on sexual habits before illness, during illness and following treatment. It proved difficult to differentiate between the beneficial effects of recovery from depression and the possible adverse drug effects on sexual activity. Two patients dropped out of the study because of supposed sexual side-effects--a male with ejaculatory difficulties and a female with orgasmic impotence. Fifty-four patients completed the sexual questionnaire and a four-week course of clomipramine. There were nineteen males and thirty-five females. Sixty-eight per cent of males and 57% of females had their 'sex life' impaired by depressive illness. Coital rate was decreased and depression interfered with performance and satisfaction. Clomipramine therapy seemed to have advantageous and disadvantageous effects. The advantageous effects were probably associated with improvement in depressive illness. There was evidence that clomipramine had an adverse effect sexually in 26% of males and 14% of females. The effect was dose-related in females.