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  • Title: [IUD under the aspects of sexual medicine (author's transl)].
    Author: Wenderlein JM, Nohlen H, Tauber PF.
    Journal: Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd; 1982 Feb; 42(2):115-7. PubMed ID: 6917803.
    Abstract:
    The question is whether there is any difference between women who prefer hormonal contraception and those using an IUD. In this study, 198 women using IUDs were compared with 514 women utilizing hormonal contraception. There was little difference between the 2 groups as far as simple social data was concerned. However, while the tendency displayed was the same, the more detailed questions regarding sexual medicine were answered differently. For those women using hormonal contraception, low or absent libido was noted twice as often (24%) than by women using an IUD (11%). Likewise, the group that reported low or absent capacity for orgasm more often (21%) than by those using the IUD (13%). Pain during intercourse was reported twice as often by women with hormonal contraception (18%) than by those with an IUD (9%). These and other results point to a possible involvement of psychosocial factors and, in particular, factors of a sexual medicine which can prompt women to prefer hormonal contraception to the IUD or vice versa. This is indirectly confirmed by the personality dimension recorded by psychometric means. Additional steroid influences must be clarified by means of prospective comparative studies between hormonal contraception and IUD. (author's)
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