Recent studies indicate that childbirth is associated with many problems related to the sexual relationship, as women lack sexual desire and have difficulty achieving orgasm compared to before pregnancy.

Dr. Hamad Ali Al-Sufyan, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, infertility and IVF treatment at the Atomiya Medical Center in Riyadh, believes that 90% of cases can be treated, and treatment begins as a matter of frankness between the spouses, as well as conducting some tests, then drawing a treatment plan based on a practical, psychological and social basis .

Al-Sufyan added, "The diagnosis may not be difficult, but the most difficult is the presence of the spouses, and their requests for help and treatment are shy, ashamed, or afraid."

The percentage of disturbances

Approximately 40% in women.

30% in men.

20% joint.

10% unexplained reasons.

the reasons

1. Loss of sexual desire in spouses.

2. Physical inability to respond to the desire despite its existence.

3. Delayed orgasm phase (Climax) lack of climax or (orgasm3).

4. The occurrence of pain in the marital relationship.

These reasons abound after the age of forty, and can occur in all stages of life.

The most common symptoms of sexual disorders in men

1. No erection.

2. Premature ejaculation or lack thereof.

In women

1. Dehydration in the secretions of the sexual glands (lack of lubricants).

2. Spasms in the vaginal muscles (Vaginismus

3. Inability to relax.

Means of treatment

1. Treating some debilitating diseases, such as: diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.

2. Control of nervous and hormonal disorders.

3. Treatment of chronic diseases such as kidney or liver failure and others.

4. Obesity because it hinders the determination of comfortable sexual positions.

5. Alcohol, drugs and smoking, which lead to bad social, financial and psychological pressures.

6. Medicines: dispensing or replacing psychotropic drugs that negatively affect the reproductive organs.

The treatment is divided into two types, namely

First: treatment with medicines

As hormonal needles, such as testosterone, but in a controlled amount To prevent the occurrence of laziness of the sexual glands, or the emergence of abnormal hair in women.

Viagra and others, as these help some, especially diabetics.

Second: Treatment with assistive devices

Like penile implantation, this technique is expensive and is a last resort.

Behavioral and psychological therapy, and it is through sexual education for the spouses with the help of specialists.