Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome at BU

Bostun
University has been attracting attention for some rather dubious distinctions
lately. First they won a $1.3 billion Federal contract to construct a
high-security
bioterror defense laboratory so they can cultivate and
experiment on the world’s deadliest pathogens.

Then there was the brouhaha concerning BU’s
abortive attempt to install
"Better, faster, cheaper" ex-NASA guru Daniel Goldin in the President’s
office, a plan so ill-convieved the university had to pay the guy $2
million
just to
forget about it.

Now comes word from Boston University’s Institute of Sexual Medicine that
Dr. Irwin Goldstein has identified an important new syndrome – Persistent
Sexual Arousal Syndrome – and is trying to develop treatments for it,
so far with patchy success.

The syndrome is the opposite of the usual female sexual complaint —
difficulty getting aroused. Instead, patients sustain unrelenting physical
arousal, no matter how many orgasms they have.

"It’s just a horror," said Lila, a 71-year-old woman who has
had the syndrome since brain and bladder surgery in 1999, and said she
often has 200 small orgasms a day. "It bothers me more than the
breast cancer," an advanced case that was diagnosed two years ago.

"God forbid you ever tell anyone you have this problem," Goldstein
said. "It gets misconstrued, you become `a public menace,’ because
you’re `a pervert.’ "

from the Boston
Globe