Future perspectives in women's sexual healthcare

There are a number of clinical challenges and unmet needs repre­senting women's sexual concerns, essentially due to the multidimen­sional complexity and minimal availability of therapeutic options.

In contrast to the sexual disorders in males, women's sexual con­cerns and levels of personal distress are significantly influenced by psycho-emotional factors and major life events and therefore, often no single therapeutic option may suffice. In our attempts to reverse a distressing problem, it is likely that we will encounter difficulties in establishing the clear demarcation among the organic parameters, biopsychosocial triggers, and the evaluated measures of sexual dis­orders. Nonetheless, healthcare professionals have the duty to look for, identify, and address any and all predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining factors within the holistic context of FSD management. There is no doubt that prospective research and clinical trials are on­going worldwide to find novel and efficacious treatment options for FSD. Given the overriding modulations by intra- and interpersonal variables, large cohort studies to interpret the cause and effect of changing aspects of life on sexual function in its greater details may be useful to the scientific and clinical community. As in any other medical discipline, identifying and developing preventive measures, including evidence-based education and behavioural approaches to preserve the psychorelational harmony, will be beneficial for a gen­eric sexual well-being.