What is Sexual Medicine?

Sexual medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with human sexuality and its disorders. Sexual medicine attempts to improve sexual health through prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of conditions or diseases that involve sexual function, sexual and/or partnership experience and behavior, gender identity, and sexual trauma and its consequences. Sexual medicine takes into account the individeal and couple dimension as well as the knowledge and methods of medical, psychological, and social sciences. It recognizes that many of the conditions or disorders may be caused by other medical conditions and/or their treatments.