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Abstract Female sexual dysfunction is a common problem with detrimental effects on woman’s quality of life. It is defined as disorders of sexual desire, arousal, orgasm, and sexual pain, which lead to personal distress. FSD has an economical and societal impact The etiology of sexual dysfunction is frequently multifactorial as it relates to general physical and mental well-being, quality of relationship, past sexual functioning, social class, education, employment, life stressors, personality factors, the presence of a sexual partner, and partner’s age and health. Abnormalities of sexual function have been associated with urinary incontinence in women. Urinary incontinence is defined as any involuntary loss of urine. It is divided into three types: SUI, UUI and MUI. Urinary incontinence is a common health problem in women with reported prevalence of 11.4–73%. It is a deteriorating factor for the quality of life of many women. Both urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction are common conditions often undiagnosed and untreated in women and are associated with decreased quality of life. Urinary incontinence has been implicated to have an adverse effect on female sexuality. It was found that 25.1% of women with urinary incontinence had sexual impairment to some degree. Psychological distress, fear of incontinence during intercourse, embarrassment due to odor been suggested in the etiology of sexual dysfunction. Sex steroid hormones include oestrogens, progesterone and androgens. One of the androgen hormones is DHEA which is produced by adrenal cortex and converted to testosterone in peripheral Summary |