SUMMARY :
This paper will focus on women's report of pleasure and satisfaction,
and the newest physiological research
to support sexual pleasure in women.
Pleasure and satisfaction are reported
as being very important to women.
However, the International Classification
of Diseases-10 and the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-IV) do not consider pleasure
or satisfaction as criteria for female sexual and sensual interactions. The International Consensus conference on female dysfunction, definitions, and classifications,
did not include satisfaction or pleasure, although satisfaction was proposed as
a diagnostic entity.
Part of this paper will discuss the present classification system
of female dysfunctions as being based
on the heterosexual male linear model
of desire, arousal and orgasm,
with no consideration of a woman's pleasure or satisfaction, or lack thereof.
A new classification system will be offered.