Female Impotence Is A 'Sponsored Creation'

IOL ^ | 1-2-2003

[Enterprise]

Female impotence? They can't get it up?

[independentmind]

And continuing along the same line....

There was an article in the WSJ recently which discussed the push to use anti-depressants to treat shopaholics. (If anyone has access to the on-line version I hope they post it here.) The uncontrollable urge to spend is now considered a mental disorder by some.

Perhaps the two trends are related.

[Paladin2]

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

[Nick Danger]

[Billthedrill]

Have any of these tenured geniuses thought of actually asking a few real, live women? I would think it is they, and not white mice, who have the definitive say in the matter.

Stress, tiredness or threatening or abusive behaviour by their partners could be a cause, it says.

Yes, and I remember the hoops the medicos had many men go through in the early days of Viagra to get a scrip, using these same words. Would you believe group counselling? For that private a problem? It's a fact. "It's in your head, relax, stop drinking coffee, eat more bran..." The guys usually nodded, got the stuff off the Internet, and finding that it worked, dispensed with the "it's all in your head" crapola. There is more than one interest group at work here, and if the pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest, so do the headshrinkers.

[independentmind]

Hmmmmm.

[MonroeDNA]

They ought to put it in the water.

[Jesse]

Right on!

Ah, Bill? Just curious, really, none of my business, but...how did you come by your nickname. Ah, strike that. How did you get your nickname?

[Billthedrill]

Ah, an old story - there I was in '98, stuck for a screen name and hot to post, so I took the name of the current president and added a reference to his sexual proclivities. When JohnRob finally codes up a way to change my screen name and hang onto my "member since" date I'll be something more personally accurate, like...uh..."Zoltan the Mighty Conqueror"...

[visualops]

says that for the past six years
I suppose no-one talked about it before then.
This is stupid. What's the issue with there being a potential pharmacetical treatment for certain sexual problems, whatever they may be?
Also, it's a fact that when a drug company feels they have something to market, they market it aggressively. This is no different.
I'd say it's up to the doctor(and patient) to decide whether or not a medication would help a particular patient.
the scientific evidence for female sexual dysfunction is often misplaced or absent
Just because no significant attention has been paid or research done doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[watchin]

You must be a real babe magnet if you've got to get her drunk first.

[Paladin2]

Inhibitions are reduced well before inebriation is achieved.

[lizma]

This is just plain silly.

The topic of ""female sexual dysfunction" has been discussed and taught in medical schools for decades and there's many causes. Some drug company just didn't make it up last year!

I think the problem is that this goes against the PC, pro-femist Master & Johnsons report that women's libido increases once they get old enough not to easily concieve and suffer the "burden" of childbirth. (Which is totally ridiculous in the 1st place. Makes no evolutionary sense.)

Women are perfect don't you know. How dare an evil corporation say otherwise!

[boris]

Some years ago, scientists announced that they'd discovered a drug that could make a woman experience orgasm...even if the nerves from the genitals to the brain were severed.

I wrote a letter to the editor (not published for some reason) which merely said: "New hope for Hillary."

--Boris

[boris]

And here I thought you were a dentist.

[Buffalo Head]

"Women are perfect don't you know."

Not so, or they would have the same sex drive as men and be satisfied just as easily, every time. Most of them were short changed for whatever the cause. What a shame.

[LisaAnne]

Yeah? Says you. ha!

[lizma]

The women perfect thing was tongue-in-cheek.

The females are the gate keepers of the evolutionary stock. They have to be selective, picking the brighest and best, to best continue the species. It wouldn't work if all they wanted to do is screw their brains out, no matter the outcome.

(Um, but not so for the ones who appear on Jerry Springer though. Modern times have created a de-evolutionary cushion.)

[Terriergal]

much of it is bent on stoking ideas that inhibited sexual desire is medically abnormal

Gee... it feels abnormal to me.

Is this striking you as kind of sexist? I mean, I know that men are gonna have a bigger appetite than women, but for healthy childbearing-age women in a healthy relationship having no desire even during ovulation, there definitely is some change going on that is undesirable. Can you imagine if an article was written saying 'male impotence' is not really much of a problem?