Instead of being correlated with any blood hormone (or hormone metabolite) levels, sexual dysfunction in women is most significantly associated with poor mental health and unfavorable attitudes toward the partner.
It is important to avoid mistaking age- and relationship-related changes for desire/interest disorders. When a person lacks anticipatory sexual desire, want (along with pleasure, arousal, and excitement) cannot be triggered during sexual engagement, and this causes discomfort, a person is said to have desire disorder.
Lack of initial desire, low subjective arousal (mental sexual excitement), so that desire is not aroused at any point throughout the sexual interaction, and infrequent or no orgasm are the characteristics of this syndrome.
