“…A lack of respect of professional boundaries in the clinician-patient relationship is another neglected precipitating co-factor of FSD, especially for women who sought professional help in a vulnerable moment of their life [13,14] (see sub-chapter on Classification, etiology and key issues in FSD).They may behave as maintaining factors, through the most frequent mistake in the field of FSD: the diagnostic omission, which encompasses occasional or systematic diagnostic neglect, particularly in the area of biological/medical etiology of FSD [2,3,[4][5][6][10][11][12] and/or comorbidity between medical conditions and FSD [1-3,4-6,11-12, 15,16]. This chapter will discuss these three major areas of iatrogenic disorders, to open a mental window on the sexual scenario we clinicians often do not consider.The role of post-traumatic FSD will be briefly reviewed with a focus on spinal cord injuries [17][18][19][20], and ritual female genital mutilation (FGM) [21][22][23][24]. Sexual abuse, which may cause both a physical and emotional trauma, may be related to post-traumatic stress disorder and long term sexual disorders [25].…”