If you have a hormonal imbalance resulting in too little testosterone, you may have difficulty attaining orgasm. Testosterone is made from progesterone and many women have low levels. A nutritional therapist can measure your progesterone and testosterone levels in saliva and advise you on what to do. Studies have shown that giving women testosterone implants raises their sex drive - with significant improvements in sexual desire, fantasy and response and a decrease in painful sex due to lack of excitement and lubrication.

I suspect that our ever-increasing exposure to oestrogen-like compounds found in pesticides, some plastics, household cleaning products, industrial pol-lutants and pharmaceutical drugs may be messing up the normal hormone production and messaging that contributes to a healthy sexual system. When men are exposed to high amounts of such so-called xeno-oestrogens, they can develop female characteristics such as breast growth. At the same time, these chemicals affect sex drive and other particularly male char-acteristics such as muscular strength and development.