Sexuality and infertility

Background: Sometimes some sexual problems lead to infertility while in some cases infertility caused sexual problem. Cause of infertility, length of infertility and family and social support influence the couples sexual life.Objective: The aim of this study was to show how sexuality change after diagnose of infertility.Materials and Methods: In this review article we survey 176 articles from 2000-2017 and analyzed 36 related articles in pubmed, scopus, science direct and Iranian database.Results: We found most changes in sexual self-esteem, sexual relationship, sexual function, marital adjustment, psychological change such as anger, panic, despair, and grief and times of sexual activity.Conclusion: One of the aims of infertility sexual counseling is to help the couples to separate sex from reproduction. We believe sexual counseling in infertility center is very helpful and improve sexual health of infertile couples.

Keywords:

Sexuality , Infertility , Sexual counseling , Sexual function , Infertile couple