ORIGINAL RESEARCH-WOMEN'S SEXUAL HEALTH: Persistent Genital Arousal: Disordered or Normative Aspect of Female Sexual Response?

There is a cohort of women who regularly, if intermittently, experience unprovoked and persistent genital arousal and find it mildly pleasurable. Their genital arousal differs from that of women who meet all five criteria for a diagnosis of PGAD. Possible explanations and etiologies for these differing reactions are discussed. Leiblum S, Seehuus M, and Brown C. Persistent genital arousal: Disordered or normative aspect of female sexual response?