The Etiological Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity, Sexual Distress, and Female Sexual Dysfunction Is Partly Genetically Moderated

The association between anxiety sensitivity and FSD has a common genetic component. There is a weaker genetic link between anxiety sensitivity and sexual distress and between sexual distress and FSD. These data, while silent on direction of causality, suggest a role for pleiotropic genetic factors influencing anxiety sensitivity and FSD. They also highlight a need to refine the inclusion of distress in classifications of disorders of female sexual functioning. Burri A, Spector T, and Rahman R. The etiological relationship between anxiety sensitivity, sexual distress and female sexual dysfunction is partly genetically moderated. J Sex Med 2012;9:1904-1913.