SEXUAL ASSERTIVENESS, SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ARABIC WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT SEXUAL AVERSION AND VAGINISMUS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is often a common problem with significant effects on women’s quality of life and leads to disturbance in a women’s ability to respond sexually or to experience sexual pleasure and has profound serious impact on a woman’s sexual assertiveness and her relationships And leads to a negative impact on the wellbeing of her spouse.

The purpose of this study to determine sexual assertiveness and sexual harassment in female with sexual aversion and vaginismus and comparing with healthy women, little studies and data has focused on this area especially in Arabian countries.

A cross-sectional research, method was adopted in the present investigation during the year 2024 between January and June including 55 married women who are 19-50 years old live in Arabian countries, the study population was recruited among women attending Motmaena Medical Psychiatric Center in Riyadh city, and we selected women complaining of sexual aversion and other women vaginismus as diagnosed by DSM-IV-TR. We also compared 15 healthy women, after oral consent, all women were available face to face to complete answer Arabic version of Sexual Assertiveness Scale (SAS) for Women (Attaky et al, 2020) and Sexual Harassment Experience Questionnaire (SHEQ) and to compare between three groups. Data were analyzed using IBM-SPSS version 21. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.

A total of 55 female with mean age mean age (mean ± 22.78 ± SD1.87) were studied, unwanted sexual harassment is common in women with aversion than women suffering from vaginismus but sexual coercion is common in women with vaginismus. Sexual assertiveness (sexual refusal) was common and significant in women with sexual dysfunction than healthy women and more common in women with vaginismus.

In this research will provide a basic knowledge especially in this area unwanted sexual harassment, Sexual assertiveness are significant factors.

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