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Woman With Rare Sexual Disorder Commits Suicide After Story Goes Public

By Erik Ortiz, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Credit: TAMPA BAY TIMES

Gretchen Molannen, who suffered from persistent genital arousal disorder, was found dead of a suicide in her Spring Hill, Fla., home the day after a story she had participated in with the Tampa Bay Times appeared online.

December 5, 2012 Updated Dec 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM PDT

A Florida woman who lived with a rare condition that left her sexually aroused to the point that she couldn't function normally committed suicide a day after her story went public.

Gretchen Molannen, 39, was found dead around midnight Saturday, just as her story was published online on the Tampa Bay Times’ website, the newspaper first reported Tuesday.

It was a tragic end to a woman who lived with what she thought for years was a secret shame — known medically as persistent genital arousal disorder. First documented in 2001 by American psychologist Sandra Leiblum, the disorder makes women feel sexually but not psychologically stimulated.

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