Sexual Health Center
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines sexual health as the positive enrichment and strengthening of personality, communication, and love by considering sexual life as a whole in terms of physical, mental, spiritual, and social aspects. In addition, sexual health is considered an important and positive aspect of personal health.
Sexuality is an important part of human life and plays a very important role in the formation and maintenance of close relationships. For this reason, sexual problems are a source of great distress for the individual, rather than a loss of the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. Sexual dysfunction is a disorder that "prevents the person from performing sexual intercourse the way he or she wants to". Sexual intercourse consists of 4 phases: Desire, Arousal, Satisfaction and Relaxation. Problems in one or more of these phases cause sexual dysfunction. Sexual problems can have organic and psychological causes. Because psychological causes often accompany organic causes, sexual dysfunction should be treated in a multidisciplinary way and assessed by specialists in psychiatry, urology and gynaecology if necessary. The most common organic causes: Vascular diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic diseases, side effects of medication, alcohol or drug use
There are many psychological factors that promote sexual dysfunction and play a role in perpetuating the problem. These include: society's view of sexuality, education, incomplete or wrong information, stereotypical wrong thoughts about sexuality, psychiatric disorders, incompatibility in the relationship, loss of attraction between couples, cheating, psychological problems during pregnancy and after childbirth, sexual problems in the partner, physical and sexual violence. Exposure, traumatic sexual experiences, lack of sexual self-confidence, performance anxiety are the main psychosocial and cultural reasons for sexuality.
The effectiveness of drugs and hormone treatments in treating sexual problems is only temporary. For this reason, brief sexual therapies that focus on sexual problems are preferred. Sex therapy can be seen as a kind of cognitive behavioural therapy that is applied to couples with sexual problems. In addition to the method used and the professional skills of the therapist, the couple's adherence to therapy, their desire and effort to get better also play a role in the success of the treatment. Types of treatment include individual psychotherapy, couple-oriented sex therapy, group therapy, self-help programmes and analytically oriented sex therapy. However, not all sexual dysfunctions require specific treatment.
Many of these problems are due to misinformation and associated "exaggerated expectations" and distorted thoughts about genitalia. It may be possible to overcome these and similar problems by attending sex counselling. In our sex therapy clinic, we emphasise the treatment of sexual dysfunction and preventive approaches,
Our aim is to assure male or female patients, whether individually or as a couple, that the physiological and psychological dimensions of their problems are addressed together.
Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
What are sexually transmitted diseases?
The duration of symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and the resulting symptoms depend on many factors, such as the mode of transmission, the duration of transmission, the type of microorganism, the intensity of exposure and the immune status of the person. If not treated, infections caused by these pathogens can become chronic and cause recurrent infections, and some can lead to severe chronic health problems (as with HIV and HCV infections). Multiple partners may also have continuous, recurrent transmission of infections.
To learn more information about STDs please scroll down; Also you can check the STD Screening panels that we perform in our laboratory.