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Hysterectomy Affects Sexual Function

Written by: Celie 8/30/2007 1:55:35 PM
I found this article and thought it was of interest to sololady visitors.--C


Surgical removal of the uterus, whether accompanied by removal of the ovaries or not, harms and cannot improve sexual function and desire, a U.S. study confirms.

A 17-year study with 930 participants found that 75.7% of women between the ages of 15 to 65 who were hysterectomized from 1 to 33 years prior to the study reported “diminished or absent sexual desire.” Of those same respondents, 65.8% reported “diminished or absent sexuality” and 59.6% reported “diminished or absent orgasm.” The complete study results are available at http://www.hersfoundation.org/effects.html.

On average, about 621,000 hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) were performed in the U.S. each of the last ten years for non-life threatening conditions, and 75% of those women also underwent oophorectomies (removal of the ovaries, female castration) at the time of the surgery. Whether the uterus is removed through the vagina (vaginal hysterectomy), through the abdomen (abdominal hysterectomy) or any other method to remove the uterus from women, the possibility of uterine orgasm is permanently eliminated because the uterus has been removed.

The physical damage, functional loss, and endocrine abnormalities that are a direct result of the extensive nerve, blood supply, and ligament damage caused by severing those attachments from the uterus further diminishes feeling and sexual desire. If the cervix is removed as well the vagina must be shortened and may cause painful intercourse, which was reported by 46.8% of the respondents.

“It is undeniable that sexual loss occurs in all men whose sex organs are removed,” says Nora W. Coffey, president and founder of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources & Services (HERS) Foundation, “and yet women are expected to be superhuman. A woman’s sex life is somehow the same or improved by the removal of her sex organs? No, it’s simply not possible.”

“Female sexual feeling and desire depends on many factors,” added Coffey, “but the anatomical facts cannot be denied We’re available to discuss these issues with the author(s) of the ‘Harvard Women’s Newsletter’ who claim in the face of 100 of years of research to the contrary that ‘hysterectomy doesn’t harm — and may help — sexual function,’” Coffey said.
 




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