Sex problems after menopause: a study of fifty married couples treated in a sex counseling programme.

This is a study of the sexuality of 50 couples among whom all of the women were post-menopausal. The population was seen in the Sex Counseling Service at Yale for treatment of sexual problems. The impact of biological changes accompanying the menopause appears to influence sexual interest, behaviour and response of both women and their male partners. The possible importance of oestrogen effects on perception and the significance of perceptual changes at menopause to the functioning of the sex response cycle is reported. Findings also include male emotions generated by female biological changes which inhibit male sexuality.