Creative Education, 2014, 5, 1363-1376 Published Online August 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2014.515155 How to cite this paper: da Silva Câmara, C. N., Corrêa, H. V. V., Silva, S. C. B., da Silva, C. S. A., Silva Jr., M., & Brito, R. S. (2014). Life Cycle Comparative Analysis of Sexual Function in Women with Normal and Overweight Body Mass Index. Crea- tive Education, 5, 1363-1376. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2014.515155 Life Cycle Comparative Analysis of Sexual Function in Women with Normal and Overweight Body Mass Index Cibele Nazaré da Silva Câmara * , Hellen Vivianni Veloso Corrêa, Susanne Cristine Brito e Silva, Caio Santos Alves da Silva, Mauro Silva Junior, Regina S. Brito Post-Graduation Program in Theory and Behavior Research, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil Email: * cibelecamara@hotmail.com Received 26 May 2014; revised 30 June 2014; accepted 10 July 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Sexual health is considered of fundamental importance in people’s lives. Since it is determined by physiological, psychological and social factors, the investigations of these aspects are relevant to full comprehension of this phenomenon. Endocrinological conditions, as overweighed and normal body mass indexes were addressed as the main factors in women’ sexual function, which can affect level of sexual hormones; and as a consequence, lead to sexual dysfunction. Body mass index of 370 women were analyzed to indentify the implications in their sexual life, using the Female Sex- ual Function Index (FSFI) inventory, with six domains that assess different aspects of women’ sex- ual activity and satisfaction. The main results show no statistical differences between normal and overweighed body mass index. However, there were significant differences between different phases of life as Reproductive, Perimenopause, and Postmenopause women, in which the young- sters showed better FSFI scores, better sexual function, than the older ones. Also, significant dif- ferences were found when time of marriage was taken into account, the longer the relationship, the worse the sexual function. We concluded that not only endocrinological variables may explain the sexual function in women, but also psychosocial variables as age, and time and quality of their relationships. Keywords Sexual Function, Overweight, Relationship * Corresponding author.