Female sexual dysfunction – which is claimed to affect up to two thirds of women – is a disorder invented by the pharmaceutical industry to build global markets for drugs to treat it, it is claimed today.
Drug companies have invested millions in the search for a female equivalent of Viagra, so far without success. But while doing so they have stoked demand by creating a buzz around the disorder they have created, according to Ray Moynihan, a lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
Corporate employees worked with medical opinion leaders, ran surveys aimed at portraying the problem as widespread and helped create the diagnostic instruments to persuade women that their sexual difficulties deserved a medical label. But sex problems in women are far more complex than they are in men, encompassing lack of desire, lack of arousal and lack of orgasm and the drug industry's narrow focus is failing them.'
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Female sexual dysfunction? Is there such a thing?
ReplyDeleteI think it's more likely to be something like you are NOT attracted to the other person.
I can understand the male thing, which could be due to health problems, but women are built very differently from men.
Also, if the man is no good, it usually becomes more than a bit obvious, hence the headache every night....LOL
(I'm in a funny mood)...LOL