Insatiable Appetites or Medical Anomalies

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Insatiable Appetites or Medical Anomalies Albert D. Lehmkuhl Front Range Community College Abstract Although I found the condition of these women interesting, especially with society norms considering the more tragic asexual ailment women have being an inability to reach gratification, I was left with many unanswered questions and even more doubt. The questions I am left with would give more foundation to the syndrome and make it easier to relate, or even gain just a low level understanding of how life altering it is. Upon a retrospective of the video, and the paper I have written the biggest question I keep coming to is why is there little to no medical information about this syndrome, especially as detrimental as it seems to be to these three women. Insatiable Appetites or Medical Anomalies The video, “A Hundred Orgasms a Day”, was enlightening to the plight of women who suffer through a disorder quite uncommon among the female population. I found it interesting that when it comes to women's sexuality, the cultural focus tends to be on those who do not have the ability to, or easily can orgasm. So watching three women who suffer the exact opposite sexual dysfunction was interesting. “Persistent Sexual Arousal” syndrome. A few questions I have... when Jeanie was receiving electric shock treatment to alleviate her “pulsations”, however during the process she admits that she is a “wuss” when it comes to painful sensations. From the description of these women’s experience in their constant arousal, I would assume that after a while the uncomfortable feeling of not being able to alleviate the sensation would end up being somewhat painful. One of the lasting questions I had revolved around a statement made, at one point Jeanie said that she left her former husband because she couldn’t tell him about her issue, because how do you explain that you need

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