Relapse of Unconsummated Marriage Reza Bidaki 1, 2 , Bonnie Bozorg 3 , Mahdieh Mojibian 4 , Atena Fallah 1, * 1 Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran 2 Yazd Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran 3 Master of Clinical Psychology, Tehran university of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran * Corresponding author: Atena Fallah, Research Center of Addiction and Behavior Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Tel: +98- 3532632006, E-mail: Fallah.md@yahoo.com © 2017. Focus on Sciences Submited: 22.10.2016 Accepted: 30.11.2016 Keywords: Relapse Unconsummated Marriage Sexual function Focus on Sciences Feb 2017, Volume 3, Issue 1 Leter to Editor Unconsummated marriage (UCM) means a situation where newly married couples cannot achieve penile-vaginal in- tercourse for variable times, although desire and several atempts to do so and its exact causes are unknown [1]. It shows 17% of visits in sexual health clinics are because of this disability [2]. Major psychiatric disorders for instance de- pression, obsessive compulsive disorder and mental sub-nor- mality were diagnosed in a minority of the patients [1]. It have been shown most important mental factors in women are fear of sexual relationship, unhappy or undesired view to their husband and anxiety in sexual function and premature ejaculation in men [3]. Vaginismus has been reported as an important cause for unconsummated marriage [4]. Vaginismus may increase the length of unconsummated marriage up to 22 years [5]. Pre-vaginal muscles prevent penile to enter in vaginismus disorder. In other words it makes intercourse uncomfortable [4]. Although the sexual ability of male partner may remain intact, he develops impotence [6]. Women with vaginismus in comparison with the healthy women obtain a signif- cantly higher sexual distress score, defecation or urination problems, general anxiety, higher education levels and lower self-esteem. Tere is a strong correlation between vaginis- mus, phobia and anxiety [7]. Another cause of unconsum- mated marriage is vaginal stenosis. Vaginal stenosis is a com- mon problem in women who have the experience of pelvic radiotherapy and surgeries for gynaecological cancer episiot- omy. Not surprisingly, temporary dyspareunia is a common postnatal result [8]. 12.8% of women with chronic pain afer delivery with episiotomy indicate a health problem [8]. In conclusion, afer surgery, ladies may fnd conditions such as vaginal narrowing and surgery scar that prevent their abili- ty of sexual performance. Although, we didn’t fnd statement “secondary“ or relapse of UCM but theoretically and clini- cally it suggest that follow some surgery in genital area, it may happen a situation similar UCM. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Te authors thanks of the staf of psychiatry center of Taf. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Tere is no conficts of interest. FUNDING Tis study has no support. AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS Atena Fallah and Reza Bidaki designed the study , Mahdieh Mojibian and Bonnie Bozorg edited it and Bonnie Bozorg and Reza Bidaki submited and revised it. REFERENCES 1. Lema VM. Unconsummated marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: case re- ports. Afr J Reprod Health. 2014;18(3):159-65. PMID: 25508052 2. El-Meliegy A. A retrospective study of 418 patients with honeymoon impotence in an andrology clinic in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Eur J Sexol. 2004;13:1-4. 3. Barati A, Mehrabi F, editors. Inspection Reasons Unconsummated Marriage in Iran. Notebook Article Conference All over Medical Te-