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ILLINOIS PANEL VOTES TO ADD FEMALE ORGASMIC DISORDER AS MEDICAL MARIJUANA
QUALIFYING CONDITION
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Officials in Illinois voted this week to add female orgasmic disorder as a new
qualifying condition for medical marijuana, Known as FOD, the condition is also
being weighed as a possible way for patients to qualify for medical cannabis in
other states, including Ohio, New Mexico and Connecticut.
In order to be formally enacted, the Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board’s
new recommendation will need to be approved by the state Department of Health.
Gabriella Bova, an Illinois resident who submitted the petition to add FOD to
the list of qualifying conditions, told the panel at a meeting on Monday that
she’s “struggled with FOD for most of my adult life, and I became interested in
cannabis as a treatment when nothing else worked for me.”
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Another speaker, clinical sexologist Suzanne Mulvehill, founder of the Female
Orgasm Research Institute (FORI), said she too was affected by FOD and went to
four sex therapists to help resolve it before determining that “cannabis helped
me overcome” it.
Mulvehill urged the board to approve the petition “so women can overcome FOD and
the stigma and shame that accompany it,” according to an Illinois News Joint
report on this week’s board meeting.
The body also voted to recommend adding endometriosis as a medical cannabis
qualifying condition.
A panel in Ohio, meanwhile, took testimony on Wednesday about a proposal to FOD
as a qualifying condition—a request made by FORI’s Mulvehill herself in a
petition filed last year. The hearing of the state Medical Cannabis Board drew
comments from psychologists, sex therapists and other health professionals.
“As a sexual assault survivor with a diagnosis of vaginismus and PTSD, I spent a
significant portion of my sexually active adulthood struggling with pain with
penetration and difficulty accessing orgasm due to my trauma,” wrote Ashley
Manta, a California-based sex and relationship coach.
“Cannabis is medicine, and for the millions of women suffering from orgasmic
difficulty/disorder, a beacon of hope in an otherwise dreary outlook for their
intimate lives,” Manta continued. “Cannabis made such a profound difference in
my life that I became a vocal (and internationally recognized) advocate for
utilizing cannabis to improve sexual experiences, especially for women who have
a history of trauma-related disorders.”
New Mexico regulators are also accepting public comment for a hearing on the
issue set for May. Connecticut is planning to review a similar proposal, though
a meeting date has not yet been set.
Earlier this month, Mulvehill and a doctor specializing in cannabis, Jordan
Tishler, published a new study on the potential benefits of marijuana for female
orgasm disorder, including increased orgasm frequency, improved satisfaction and
greater ease achieving orgasm.
The survey of 387 participants—believed to be the first to look at marijuana and
FOD—found that more than half (52 percent) said they experienced orgasm
difficulty. For most of those people, cannabis seemed to help ease symptoms.
“Among respondents reporting orgasm difficulty, cannabis use before partnered
sex increased orgasm frequency (72.8%), improved orgasm satisfaction (67%) or
made orgasm easier (71%),” the study found.
As commenters told officials in Illinois this week, the study also found that
FOD is also associated with a number of other mental health conditions.
“Women with FOD reported 24% more mental health issues, 52.6% more PTSD, 29%
more depressive disorders, 13% more anxiety disorders, and 22% more prescription
drug use than women without FOD,” it says. “Women with FOD were more likely to
report sexual abuse history than women without FOD.”
There’s growing evidence that marijuana can improve sexual function, regardless
of sex or gender. A study last year in the Journal of Cannabis Research found
that more than 70 percent of surveyed adults said cannabis before sex increased
desire and improved orgasms, while 62.5 percent said cannabis enhanced pleasure
while masturbating.
Because past findings indicated women who have sex with men are typically less
likely to orgasm than their partners, authors of that study said cannabis “can
potentially close the orgasm in equality gap.”
A 2020 study in the journal Sexual Medicine, meanwhile, found that women who
used cannabis more often had better sex.
Numerous online surveys have also reported positive associations between
marijuana and sex. One study even found a connection between the passage of
marijuana laws and increased sexual activity.
Yet another study, however, cautions that more marijuana doesn’t necessarily
mean better sex. A literature review published in 2019 found that cannabis’s
impact on libido may depend on dosage, with lower amounts of THC correlating
with the highest levels of arousal and satisfaction. Most studies showed that
marijuana has a positive effect on women’s sexual function, the study found, but
too much THC can actually backfire.
“Several studies have evaluated the effects of marijuana on libido, and it seems
that changes in desire may be dose dependent,” the review’s authors wrote.
“Studies support that lower doses improve desire but higher doses either lower
desire or do not affect desire at all.”
Part of what cannabis appears to do to improve orgasms is interact with and
disrupt the brain’s default mode network, according to Tishler, Mulvehill’s
co-author and a vice president at the FORI.
“For many of these women, who cannot or do not have an orgasm, there’s some
complex interplay between the frontal lobe—which is kind of the ‘should have,
would have, could have [part of the brain]’—and then the limbic system, which is
the ’emotional, fear, bad memories, anger,’ those sorts of things,” he said.
“That’s all moderated through the default mode network.”
Modulating the default mode network is also central to many psychedelic-assisted
therapies. And some research has indicated that those substances, too, may
improve sexual pleasure and function.
A paper earlier this year in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, which
purported to be the the first scientific study to formally explore the effects
of psychedelics on sexual functioning, found that drugs such as psilocybin
mushrooms and LSD could have beneficial effects on sexual functioning even
months after use.
“On the surface, this type of research may seem ‘quirky,’” one of the authors of
that study said, “but the psychological aspects of sexual function—including how
we think about our own bodies, our attraction to our partners, and our ability
to connect to people intimately—are all important to psychological wellbeing in
sexually active adults.”
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Ben Adlin, a senior editor at Marijuana Moment, has been covering cannabis and
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