Women’s Perceptions of the Term ‘Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder’ for Their Condition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) is characterized by symptoms of physiological sexual arousal (genital vasocongestion, sensitivity) that are described as unwanted, distressing, and sometimes painful. Often women report embarrassment or discomfort disclosing their symptoms to health care providers. In addition, PGAD is not a recognized condition in any diagnostic manual, and has been referred by multiple names including ‘persistent sexual arousal syndrome’ and ‘restless genital syndrome’. The objective of this study was to better understand the thoughts and feelings about persistent genital arousal (PGA) terminology, by women who experience the condition. Women with symptoms of PGA (N=80) were recruited from online support groups, listservs, social media, health care providers, and researchers. Participants completed open-ended questions in an online survey about their perceptions of the name ‘persistent genital arousal disorder’, and whether they feel there would be a better name for the condition. Content analysis was undertaken; themes were identified and coded by two independent raters.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".