"Women are complicated, multifaceted and difficult to evaluate, " says Jennifer Berman, a urologist at UCLA and director of its Female Sexual Medicine Center.

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Bayer will present its clinical data Dec. 8 at the Annual Meeting of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America in Charleston, S.C.

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Dr. Leah Millheiser, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been conducting studies looking at the MRI images of women with extremely low libido.

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Besides exhaustion, there are biological reasons why some women don't return to their previous sex lives after childbirth, said Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, California.

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Goldstein moved from Boston to San Diego in 2007 to establish San Diego Sexual Medicine, a 6, 000-square-foot facility with a sex therapist, physical therapist and a full clinical research facility where scientists study sexual dysfunction.

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Dr Christian Jessen, a GP specialising in sexual health medicine, said that doctors were still guilty of being influenced by the stereotypical notion of the "gay man with HIV".

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Syrian women have told my IRC colleagues that they are so fearful relatives in Syria will be attacked that they are sending home contraceptives and medicine to prevent sexual disease.

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The report reflects what Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the medical director for the Center for Excellence in Sexual Health, sees in the clinics where she works.

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Also brought in was Dr. Fred Berlin, a psychologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine whose profile lists him as the founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic.

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"Exposure to violence -- not just cyberbullying, but peer violence and sexual violence -- increases the risk of suicide, " says Dr. Elizabeth Miller, chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, who was not involved in the study.

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According to a 2008 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, between one-third and one-half of all women will find themselves coping with low sexual desire at some point in their lives.

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