Factsheets

Our information is available in PDF format, ideal for printing hardcopy or reading offline as well as online.

Factsheets have been written and edited by:

Dr Edna Astbury-Ward, doctoral research fellow, Centre for Health and Community Research. Glyndwr University, Wrexham Wales.

Dr Robin Bell, formerly genitourinary medicine practitioner, St Mary's Hospital, London.

Dr Graham Jackson, Consultant Cardiologist and Sexual Health, London.

Prof. Margaret Rees, Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Medical Gynaecologist, Oxford, Professor University of Glasgow.

Dr Daniel Richardson, Consultant & Hon. Sen. Lecturer in Sexual Health & HIV, Brighton.

Mr David Ralph, Consultant Urologist & Andrologist, Univ.Coll, London, Inst. of Urology.

Dr John Tomlinson, GP and Hon. Physician, Men's Sexual Health, Winchester.

Rose Whiteley, Psychosexual Psychotherapist (UKCP Reg; BASRT Acc)

Disclaimer

Reimbursement schemes for drugs and devices used for sexual problems vary worldwide. For example in the UK, NHS treatment can be given only to men who:

1. have diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, poliomyelitis, prostate cancer, severe pelvic injury, spina bifida or spinal cord injury
   
   
2. are receiving dialysis for renal failure
   
   
3. have had radical pelvic surgery, prostatectomy or kidney transplant
   
   
4. were receiving treatment for erectile dysfunction with drugs before 14/9/98
   
   
5. suffer severe distress as a result of the impotence (prescribed in special centres only)

Book Reviews

Review added: 8 Dec 2008
Sleeping with ED by Victoria Lehmann and Michael Kirby. Published by National Services for Health Improvement.
118 pages.
ISBN 978-0-9554803-0-0
Price ?6.00
Click here to read the review

Review added: 8 Dec 2008
Fast Facts: Erectile dysfunction.
Culley Carson and Chris McMahon.
Health Press Oxford 2008.
ISBN 978-1-903734-67-4
pp 90. Price ?10.00
Click here to read the review

For Men

1. Ageing and sex
2. Ejaculation problems
3. Gay men
4. Impotence or erectile dysfunction
5. Oral treatment for erectile dysfunction
6. Injection and urethral therapy for erectile dysfunction
7. Erectile Dysfunction and the heart
8. Peyronie's revised
9. Testosterone and the 'Andropause'
10. Vacuum pump

For Women

1. Ageing and sex
2. Lack of sex drive
3. Orgasm
4. Painful sex
5. Sex and diabetes in women
6. Vaginal dryness
7. Vaginismus
8. Women's sexual problems

For Men and Women

1. Explaining sexual problems to your GP
2. Kegal exercises
3. Sex therapy factsheet
4. Sexual Dysfunction and Diabetes
5. Sexuality and intimacy for cancer patients and their partners

For Healthcare Professionals

1. Taking a sexual history

FAQs

1. Common sexual problems and fears
2. Sexual dysfunction and contraception

Booklets

1. Sex and the Heart
2. Sex and Diabetes
3. Sex and the Prostate