Where's the passion?

“We always think of it as something that women go through at menopause, but millions of American women are affected,” she said. “It’s a complex issue and women’s libidos are complex.”

In 2002, the American Psychiatric Association categorized HSDD in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as any persistent lack of sexual desire that causes a woman distress.

The disorder was most common in women aged 45 to 64 at 14.8 percent.