Dyspareunia looks sexy on first but how much pain will it take for it to score? A reply to my critics concerning the DSM classification of dyspareunia as a sexual dysfunction

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-67

  Binik, Yitzchak M ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GENITAL PAIN; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEX THERAPY; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 16844367112     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-005-1000-1     Document Type: Note

References (16)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Bohm-Starke, N., Falconer, C., Rylander, E., & Hilliges, M. (2001). The expression of cyclooxygenase 2 and inducible nitric oxide synthase indicates no active inflammation in vulvar vestibulitis. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 80, 638-644.
3. Brown, R. C., Brown, J. E., & Ayowa, O. B. (1993). The use and physical effects of intravaginal substances in Zairian women. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 20, 96-99.
4. Cutler, W. B., Garcia, C. R., & McCoy, N. (1987). Perimenopausal sexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 16, 225-234.
5. First, M. B., Pincus, H. A., Levine, J. B., Williams, J. B. W., Ustun, B., & Peele, R. (2004). Clinical utility as a criterion for revising psychiatric diagnoses. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 946-954.
6. Goetsch, M. F. (1991). Vulvar vestibulitis: Prevalence and historic features in a general gynecologic practice population. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 161, 1607-1609.
7. Harlow, B. L., & Stewart, E. G. (2003). A population-based assessment of chronic unexplained vulvar pain: Have we underestimated the prevalence of vulvodynia? Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, 58, 82-88.
8. James, C. E., Breeson, A. J., Kovacs, G., Hill, J. G., Grant, C., Allen, K., et al. (1984). The symptomatology of the climacteric in relation to hormonal and cytological factors. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 91, 56-62.
9. Laan, E., & van Lunsen, R. H. W. (1997). Hormones and sexuality in postmenopausal women: a psychophysiological study. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 18, 126-133.
10. Lundqvist, E. N., Hofer, P. A., Olofsson, J. I., & Sjoberg, I. (1997). Is vulvar vestibulitis an inflammatory condition? A comparison of histological findings in affected and healthy women. Acta Dermato-Venereologoca, 77, 319-322.
11. Lynch, P. J., & Moyal-Barracco, M. (January, 2003). The terminology and classification of vulvar pain. Newsletter of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease. (Available from the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease, 8814 Peppergrass Lane, Waxhaw, North Carolina 28173).
12. Meana, M., Binik, Y. M., Khalifé, S., & Cohen, D. R. (1997a). Dyspareunia: Pain symptomatology, biopsychosocial correlates and classification. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 185, 561-569.
13. Meana, M., Binik, Y. M., Khalifé, S., & Cohen, D. R. (1997b). Biopsychosocial profile of women with dyspareunia. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 90, 583-589.
14. Merskey, H., & Bogduk, N. (Eds.). (1994). Classification of chronic pain (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: IASP Press.
15. Reissing, E. D., Binik, Y. M., Khalifé, S., Cohen, D., & Amsel, R. (2004). Vaginal spasm, pain, and behavior: An empirical investigation of the diagnosis of vaginismus. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 33, 5-17.
16. Weber, A. M., Walters, M. D., Schover, L. R., & Mitchinson, A. (1995). Vaginal anatomy and sexual function. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 86, 946-949.