Published:   The Spine Journal, 2025 Lead Author:  Dr. Shashank Coorapati, MD DOI:   10.1016/j.spinee.2025.08.196 Understanding the Connection between Tarlov Cyst and Sexual Dysfunction For many years, patients living with Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) or Genito-Pelvic Dysesthesia (GPD)—conditions marked by chronic, unrelenting genital arousal and pain—were left without answers. In 2012, researchers Komisauk and Lee discovered that sacral Tarlov cysts appeared in