Sexual Disorders and Hypnotism

As every doctor knows, sexual difficulties are so many and varied that it would be impossible to go into any detail in suggesting specific treatment in the limited scope of this work. It is desirable to locate causes for every sexual disorder. The nature of the cause will largely determine the nature of the suggestions to be used.

For example, a patient suffers from homosexual tendencies: your preliminary analysis of the patient's history convinces you that the condition is acquired, rather than congenital, and therefore subject
to cure. Your suggestions will then be to the effect that the patient
really is not homosexual—his tendency is merely the result of certain experiences he has had that have tended to deviate his sex desires from the normal object—that contact with his own sex is repugnant to him—he derives no real satisfaction, etc.

This is especially true in cases of frigidity. Almost all authorities are agreed now that very few women are really frigid. The causes of the apparent frigidity may be many: misguided teaching by parents or other adults resulting in the idea that everything pertaining to sex is vile, filthy and should be strictly repressed; premature sex experience with its attendant sense of guilt; the husband's lack of knowledge of how to perform the sex act so as to achieve mutual satisfaction, etc.

Once the cause has been located, the character of suggestions used to produce the desired result is obvious. For example: "You will cease to think of sex as something vile which you must repress—you are completely a normal woman, and possess natural and strong sexual desire—you will respond to your husband's love-making without any resistance or repression—you will find complete satisfaction in your marital relations— your sexual thoughts will be dominated by the idea of beauty and love—you will find the sex relation natural and beautiful."

Impotence in the male is another sexual condition for which the physician is frequently called upon to prescribe a remedy. Wilhelm Stekel in his important work Psychic Impotence claims that most cases diagnosed as impotence are in reality merely psychic impotence. The span of man's virility, according to Stekel, is from the cradle to the grave. Some single experience, or several negative influences, creates in the sufferer's mind the fear of impotence, and this fear inhibits the normal sexual development. Remove the fear, or other negative associations, and normal functioning returns. If this be so, and Stekel's claims have received wide support, hypnotism should clearly be a strongly indicated treatment for this condition. First clear up the cause, then proceed, as above, with suggestions that he will demonstrate complete virility, etc.

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I have tried getting put under but even my therapists told me it would be unsuccessful. She was absolutely right. I had literally no results. I'd imagine this would work well for somebody if they underwent abuse and the hypnosis helped them to forget their past but if there are physical reasons like mine I don't think it would be a very good treatment but deff worth a try.

I am a hypnotherapist in private practice and I am also the President of our Professional Association. Besides this, I am also a hypnosis lecturer and I am very pleased to see this subject addressed on this forum (I am new to this forum). Within my practice, I have a sub-specialty on Sexual Dysfunction and receive a number of referrals from both mental and medical health professionals and sexual therapists.
I do believe that, as a general rule, it is important that, prior to engaging hypnotherapy to address sexual dysfunctional issues (both male and female), it is necessary to first have the issue medically investigated to rule out any 'mechanical' issues. That having been done though, I have found that hypnotherapy does provide sound results in the majority of cases.
Issues related to sexual dysfunction do tend to have an impact on the individual far beyond just an inability to achieve fulfilment during sex. These issues can have an impact on all aspects of life - the stress and worry resulting from an inability to achieve sexual gratification tend to extend into all aspects of life and lessen the quality of life. Accordingly and for the majority of treatments, I focus on two aspects initially - the actual issue (of course) but also relieving the concerns and the stress associated with the issue. I do find this has been particularly effective in the majority of cases, whether the issue is ED, Performance Anxiety, FOD, Vulvadinia etc.
In reply to Biogal, I am somewhat surprised to read that your therapist diluted a treatment option by telling you that it would be unsuccessful. In my experience, that is a strange strategy and appears, without knowing any specifics of the treatment regime, to a negative suggestion right from the outset.
I would be interested to read more about others experiences with this and happy to answer any questions related to hypno-therapeutic treatments for SD.