Some women engage in sexual relations even without feeling sexual desire, as a way to preserve their relationship or meet expectations within the partnership. This behavior was described by researchers as "compassionate sex" and was identified in an analysis of data from clinical trials involving treatments for hypoactive sexual desire disorder, characterized by a persistent reduction in interest in sex.
The study was published this month in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. The research was conducted by Nikita Guptan and James A. Simon, in the United States, and reviewed results from a decade of drug trials aimed at treating the disorder.
Among the substances analyzed were testosterone, bremelanotide, and flibanserin. The clinical trials included thousands of participants and aimed to evaluate the efficacy of these treatments for hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
