¨Drugs, FGM, stress, rape affect orgasm¨

An Obstetrician Gynecologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Dr. Kwadwo Sarbeng has stated that the use of unapproved drugs, stress and sexual molestation affect orgasm in some people.

He explained that people who experience severe pains during sexual intercourse do not enjoy having sex regularly and are sometimes unwilling to have sex.

Dr. Sarbeng observed that most partners do not have the urge for sexual intercourse enumerating gonorrhea, chlamydia infections, rape, psychological stress, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) victims as reasons for their actions.

‘At KATH what we normally see are the sexual pain disorders, it’s like there is a lot of pain during intercourse. Most of these cases are due to previous infections, it could be gonorrhea, or chlamydia infections that are causing lots of pains and the other partner may not have the infection yet he is demanding, and you also have the opposite in men. Men who have gonorrhea also have discharges from their penis,’ he explained.

According to him, lack of erectile dysfunction in some men is due to psychological stress.

He indicated that sexual disorders come in many forms, saying ‘The desire is not part of the response cycle, but the feeling to have sex. When two people agree to have intercourse, then the excitement face will plato (like a flat heel) so you are up there and you are still up there right. Then the third one is the orgasmic phase, where both the couple is supposed to achieve orgasm. So the man achieves orgasm which comes with ejaculation, the woman also achieves orgasm which has to do with a rhythmic contractions of pelvic muscles; they are the muscles between the vagina’.

‘And then you have the resolution face where you have come to the end and each partner losses the desire within that minute to continue. The excitement seizes and in fact, it takes a while for it to pick up again. So you realize that some are not able to do a second one and some of these things are affected by drugs,’ he stated.