If not, treatment generally focuses more on relationship and communication issues, improved communication (verbal and nonverbal), working on non-sexual intimacy, or education about sexuality may all be possible parts of treatment. Sometimes problems occur because people have unrealistic perceptions about what normal sexuality is and are concerned that they do not compare well to that, and this is one reason why education can be important. If the clinician thinks that part of the problem is a result of stress, techniques may be recommended to more effectively deal with that. Also, it can be important to understand why the low level of sexual desire is a problem for the relationship because the two partners may associate different meanings with sex but not know it.In the case of men, the therapy may depend on the subtype of HSDD. Increasing the level of sexual desire of a man with lifelong/generalized HSDD is unlikely. Instead, the focus may be on helping the couple to adapt. In the case of acquired/generalized, it is likely that there is some biological reason the clinician can address. In the case of acquired/situational, some form of psychotherapy may be used, possibly with the man alone and possibly together with his partner. Medication
Approved
Flibanserin was the first medication approved by FDA for the treatment of HSDD in pre-menopausal women. Its approval was controversial and a systematic review found its benefits to be marginal. The only other medication approved in the US for HSDD in pre-menopausal women is bremelanotide, in 2019.
The focus on the physiological ignores the relationship context of sexuality despite the fact that this is often the cause of sexual problems. The focus on discrepancy in desire between two partners may result in the partner with the lower level of desire being labeled as "dysfunctional," but the problem really sits with the difference between the two partners. However, within couples the assessment of desire tends to be relative. That is, individuals make judgments by comparing their levels of desire to that of their partner. The sexual problems that females complain of often do not fit well into the DSM-IV framework for sexual dysfunctions. The DSM-IV system of sub-typing may be more applicable to one sex than the other. Research indicates a high degree of comorbidity between HSDD and female sexual arousal disorder. Therefore, a diagnosis combining the two (as the DSM-5 eventually did) might be more appropriate. See also
Drugs and sexual desire
HypersexualityAsexuality
Sexual anhedonia
Sexual anorexia
Sexual arousal disorder

References
Further reading
Cryle, Peter; Moore, Alison (2011). Frigidity: An Intellectual History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30345-4. Cryle, Peter; Moore, Alison (May 2010). "Frigidity at the Fin-de-Siècle, a Slippery and Capacious Concept". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 19 (2): 243–61. doi:10.1353/sex.0.0096. PMID 20617591. S2CID 40019141. Moore, Alison (November 2009). "Frigidity, Gender and Power in French Cultural History – From Jean Fauconney to Marie Bonaparte". French Cultural Studies. 20 (4): 331–49. doi:10.1177/0957155809344155. S2CID 145773398. Moore, Alison (2009). "The Invention of the Unsexual: Situating Frigidity in the History of Sexuality and in Feminist Thought". French History and Civilization. 2: 181–92.