Despite health dangers such as sexually transmitted diseases and infections being on the rise and Sex failure due to ED or Diabetes or Neuropsychiatric Diseases, physicians rarely ask their patients about sex. It may not be a comfortable process, but working on your sexual history-taking skills can benefit both our practice and the health of our patients. Our ability to comprehensively elicit a sexual history depends on our relationship with the patient.
Every new patient should have an initial sexual history taken as part of social history. This initial history includes the age of first sexual experience, the biological sex of partners, types of sexual practices, loss of sexual desire or Libido, Early Discharge history of sexually transmitted infections, safe sex practices, and method of birth control used. If we see statistics of the USA, rates of sexually transmitted diseases and…
