Genefactor . “I get people saying ‘oh I wish my wife had that’ and thinking it’s a joke. But would they want to have a raging boner 24/7? I don’t think so.” For the longest time, women were told it was just in their heads, the study said, and not an actual physical issue causing the titillating sensation. “It’s important that people know of this medical condition and that it is primarily a neurological problem, not a psychiatric one,” said the study’s senior author Bruce Price, the chief of neurology at McLean Hospital. “Many affected women are silent and undercover — it’s in no way a fun condition, and it is difficult for patients to address their symptoms with their doctors, who have typically never heard of PGAD.” Previously, women had been given treatments ranging from psychiatric drugs to anesthetics to put on their genitals, the study said, but the patients showed no signs of improvement. Some were even told to just plain masturbate, but that also didn’t help McLaughlin. SEE ALSO Rare disorder makes me feel like I'm always about to orgasm “From the ages of 15 to 18 I masturbated constantly. Way more than an average.