Female Urinary Incontinence During Intercourse: A Review on an Understudied Problem for Women's Sexuality

Coital urinary incontinence deserves much more attention in clinical practice: women should be specifically interviewed for this disturbance because it has a very negative impact on their sexuality. If a reliable urodynamic diagnosis is made, coital urinary incontinence at penetration can be cured in more than 80% of cases by surgery in the presence of USI. The form of coital incontinence during orgasm is curable by antimuscarinic treatment in about 60% of cases when associated with DO. Serati M, Salvatore S, Uccella S, Nappi RE, and Bolis P. Female urinary incontinence during intercourse: A review on an understudied problem for women's sexuality. J Sex Med 2009;6:40-48.