What causes female sexual dysfunction?

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    “Normal” sexual function requires the vascular, neurological, hormonal, and psychological systems to function together. As such, issues with any of these symptoms may produce issues with sexual function.[1] Physiological causes of sexual dysfunction can include issues with the genitourinary, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neurological, and endocrine systems. Emotional, psychological, and cultural causes can include the use of libido-affecting medications, anxiety and depression, traumatic experience, a sexually repressive cultural environment, poor body image, fatigue, and substance abuse.

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    1. ^Dirk Rösing, Klaus-Jürgen Klebingat, Hermann J Berberich, Hartmut A G Bosinski, Kurt Loewit, Klaus M BeierMale sexual dysfunction: diagnosis and treatment from a sexological and interdisciplinary perspectiveDtsch Arztebl Int.(2009 Dec)