Recently I came across a "sexual deprivation" term and started to google what it means. Weirdly each time I was trying to put it as search term the Google redirected me to the "sexual frustration" concept, which I do not treat as correct replacement. You can try it yourself, it should behave the same for you. Neither Google has a right and knowledge to define medical conditions, nor me, so I am asking the medical community for a competent answer to this.
Are sexual deprivation and sexual frustration the same medical conditions?
From what I found out they are not. Both terms have numerous often contradictory definitions, this is what I concluded in layman's terms:
sexual deprivation - insufficiency or deficiency or absence of sexual life and desire that is caused counsciously or by disorder
sexual frustration - dissatisfaction by own sexual life and inability to fulfill and reach your sexual desires
As for me these are two totally different medical states, so I have no idea why Google redirects one to the other.
My questions regarding the matter:
- Are they the same medical states or different from the viewpoint of conventional medicine?
- Are they abnormalities/disorders or just lifestyle choice? Or maybe lifestyle diseases?
- I didn't find any definition of both in authoritative medical sources, such as DSM-5 or ICD, only Wiki sexual frustration article, which is not sufficient for me.
Is F52.0 ICD disagnosis Hypoactive sexual desire disorder the same as sexual deprivation? Though I found several mentions of sexual frustration in DSM-5, but only in the section of subjective distress in several disorders, such as Frotteuristic Disorder, Sexual Masochism Disorder, Pedophilic Disorder, etc. - Are they useful for diagnosis and triage?
Sorry for such many questions asked, but they are important to outline my struggles to understand the concept. I suppose my question is on-topic here. but it more fits to [Psychology.SE
