Female's sexuality has been approached from different angles and has been the focus of intense debate, most of it calling the attention to the gendered nature of sexual expression and how people's sexuality can better be approached from an angle that acknowledges biological explanatory factors as well as socio-cultural framing. With this webinar we aim to address some of the important issues related to female sexuality and the way a gendered evidence-based look at sexual response may help us to deliver better care for those who were born female and identify as women.
Program:
- Opening and short introduction by Annamaria Giraldi, Past President ISSM
- Welcome by the moderator – Patrícia Pascoal (Portugal)
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The contextual and gendered nature of sexual problems – Lori Brotto (Canada)
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Sexual problems and reduced quality of life after gonadotoxic interventions – what do “male” sex hormones got to do with it? – Marlene Werner (The Netherlands)
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Psychophysiology, research and clinical practice – Annamaria Giraldi (Denmark)
- Q&A Session
Dr. Lori Brotto is a Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health. She is also the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute. Her work is focused on developing safe, effective, and accessible treatments to address highly prevalent sexual concerns in women. She is especially interested in equity issues and as such has increasingly focused on digital health technologies to ensure that more women have access to treatments.
PhD student/Researcher in training: Marlene Werner graduated as Masters of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam, where she started to assist the late Ellen Laan with her research. Marlene is currently a PhD student at the Department of Sexology and Psychosomatic Gynaecology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. Her PhD project focuses on the role of testosterone in the sexual response and functioning of (cis)women and specifically the sexual health of (cis)women who have received gonadotoxic interventions. The PhD topic was conceived of by her late promotor Ellen Laan and worked out in collaboration. Today she will give us a peek behind the scenes of her PhD project to show us why Female sexuality is an important but sometimes overstated concept, a notion she learned from her late promotor.
Past President of the International Society for Sexual Medicine MD, Ph.D, FECSM, Professor Giraldi is Senior Consultant in Psychiatry in the Sexological Clinic at Psychiatric Center Copenhagen and Professor of Clinical Sexology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she also received her medical degree and PhD. Professor Giraldi has been involved in the field of sexual medicine for many years, educating medical students, nurses, physicians and psychologists in sexual medicine.
Professor Giraldi has been involved in basic research on vascular and smooth muscle function in male and female sexual responses, clinical research on the pharmacological treatment of erectile dysfunction and female sexual desire and arousal disorders as well as in research on somatic disease, psychiatric problems and sexuality. Clinically Professor Giraldi works with men, women and couples with sexual dysfunctions as well with transgender care.
Professor Giraldi has published more than 100 papers, editorials and book chapters in the field of male and female sexual medicine. She is Past Deputy Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine and has served as an Associate Editor for Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Sexual Medicine Among her many professional affiliations, Professor Giraldi was previously President of both the Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, where she has also served on the Board and Scientific Committee. In addition, she was Chair of the subcommittee on Female Sexual Health for the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM).
