Welcome to The Women's Sexual Health Foundation.

Founded in April of 2003, The Women's Sexual Health Foundation (TWSHF) is a nonprofit corporation. TWSHF supports a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of sexual health issues and serves as an educational resource for both the lay public and healthcare professionals.

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Let's Talk About Sex! Keeping Intimacy Alive at Midlife and Beyond
Author: National Women's Health Resource Center
Published by: National Women's Health Resource Center, Inc., March 2009

Over 50? Sex life lost its sizzle? Our free booklet, Let's Talk about Sex! Keeping Intimacy Alive at Midlife and Beyond, can help you go from blah to bodacious in the bedroom.
For a free PDF or booklet click here.

 

Women's Sexual Health Journal

Women’s Sexual Health Journal Latest Issue

Sadly this is the last issue of the Women's Sexual Health Journal. Thank you to all who have volunteered their support and contributed articles. Instead we will be placing more of a focus on our award winning blog site and encourage all of you to contact us if interested in being a guest blogger. Whether you are a healthcare professional or a woman who has struggled with sexual health difficulties, we invite you to be a guest blogger.

This issue of the journal is all about the pelvic floor and vulvodynia. The article “Female Sexual Dysfunction and Physical Therapy” by Stephanie Lutz, DPT and Amy Stein, MPT will help to enlighten readers on how physical therapy can resolve FSD. Further enlightenment comes from material reprinted from Amy Stein’s book Heal Pelvic Pain: The Proven Stretching, Strengthening, and Nutrition Program for Relieving Pain, Incontinence, IBS, and Other Symptoms without Surgery. Stein describes the role of the pelvic floor and what can happen when the muscle tone is too high. She provides excellent solutions to these challenging problems.

Finally , Marjorie Green, MD, MPH, Instructor Harvard Medical, Director of Mt. Auburn Menopause and Sexual Medicine Institute has written about a topic that many women are very unfamiliar with, Vulvodynia. Up to 15% of women suffer from this and often do not know where to turn for help. Dr. Green can help women understand more about Vulvodynia.

Click here for the latest issue - July 2009

Cancer and Sexuality please click here.

Results From Sexual Health Discussion Survey

TWSHF would like to thank all of you who participated in our Sexual Health Discussion Survey. For some of you the results may not be surprising, and yet others may be encouraged by them.

Click here to read the results of the Survey: Discussing FSD with Your Health Care Provider.

Knowledge of Cancer, Its Treatments and Their Side Effects Survey

Dalhousie University, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is studying people’s knowledge about reproductive-related cancers, their treatment options, and side effects. We are focusing on various communities affected by these diseases. Our study addresses testicular and prostate cancers in males, and breast, uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers in females. We are interested in what patients with any of these cancers know about the other cancers. We are also interested in how some of the language about treatments is understood.

You do not need to be an expert to help out. The questionnaire is for people who are themselves, or have a family member, affected by any of these diseases. The questionnaire takes about 15 minutes to complete. If you are interested in helping out please click here...

Having Your Voice Heard

We want to hear from you. Did cancer, menopause, or any event in your life impact your sexual health or intimacy?

Please click here to tell us your story and to read posted stories, click here.

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