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Sexual problems in men, particularly erectile dysfunction (ED), have been concerns of healers since time immemorial. Medical texts from antiquity detail various purported causes and remedies for what we now know as ED. In contemporary practice, treatment for and interest in men’s sexual wellness as a priority has been explicit; indeed, the predecessor of our International Society for Sexual Medicine was the International Society for the Study of Impotence Research, making quite clear what sexual problem was deemed most essential and in need of redress. This lopsided approach remains self-evident in the balance of content on men’s vs women’s sexual issues at most sexual medicine meetings.1 It is mainly at meetings sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, an organization explicitly dedicated to women’s sexual wellness, that content on sexual issues germane to women is reliably present and featured as the principle “main room” content. Content on persons of other genders is even less reliably present on sexual medicine meeting programs.2

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