Female Sexual Dysfunction, Marketing and Disease-Mongering

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The pharmaceutical industry's dreams of making large profits from treating female sexual dysfunction are starting to look like premature speculation

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Howto & Style

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• female
• sexual
• dysfunction

[kiviaavikko]

@puyen58 The analogy is actually very good. Sex is becoming more like digestion than dancing. Like everything else in the age of medicalization, sexuality is being turner into a mechanical problem. The underlying presupposition is that a good life is functional in the same way that machines are functional. That is part of the technological hubris of modern society. We now expect machine-like functionality from life's processes.

[CounterActPsych]

I think the comments on here are very telling and I am happy to see them as they will help get more people to stop and think since they are so representational of the current thinking. I hear fifteen year olds on busses talking about girls and women as if they were commodities not people.

[puyen58]

Women who are frigid and cannot orgasm should be sterilized.

[puyen58]

This woman is an idiot. Her dancing analogy is flawed. However, if I use the same analogy, a woman who is frigid and cannot orgasm is like a woman who suffers from paralysis. Having sex with such a woman is like dancing with a quadriplegic. The man is doing all the work dragging a limp, lifeless woman around the dance floor. Not much of a dance, is it?

[paradiseshared]

Kinda weak...