Daniel R Dickstein, Collin R Edwards, Catherine R Rowan, Bella Avanessian, Barbara M Chubak, Christopher W Wheldon, Priya K Simoes, Michael H Buckstein, Laurie A Keefer, Joshua D Safer, Keith Sigel, Karyn A Goodman, B R Simon Rosser, Stephen E Goldstone, Serre-Yu Wong, Deborah C Marshall
The ability to experience pleasurable sexual activity is important for human health. Receptive anal intercourse (RAI) is a common, though frequently stigmatized, pleasurable sexual activity. Little is known about how diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus and their treatments affect RAI. Engaging in RAI with gastrointestinal disease can be difficult due to the unpredictability of symptoms and treatment-related toxic effects. Patients might experience sphincter hypertonicity, gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety, altered pelvic blood flow from structural disorders, decreased sensation from cancer-directed therapies or body image issues from stoma creation...
May 19, 2024: Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology