The Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction among Divorce Requested

Sexual is one of the important factors for well-being in married life and also quality of life, because a good sexual life caused safety between spouses and without it maybe caused divorce. This study has been done for assessing the Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction among divorce requested in family court in Tehran, 2006-2007. This cross sectional study has been done on 400 divorce requested in family court in Tehran. Data collection tools were a questionnaire form designed in different sections for male and female. The female questionnaire was FSFI (Female Sexual Function Index (and the male questionnaire was IIEF (International Index of Erectile Function), that have sections about sexual desire, arousal, orgasm and sexual satisfaction. Content validity and Cronbach’s alpha reliability were used. Results showed that 66.7 percent of the men and 68.4 percent of the men didn’t have sexual satisfaction in their sexual life. 71.2, 23.1 and 5.8 percent of the men had good, medium and few sexual functions respectively, and 26, 56.2 and 17.8 percent of the women had good, medium and few sexual functions, respectively. Results showed that female sexual function is less than male. To pay attention the rate of divorce in Iran, it is need to regard the sexual in divorce requested