Feb 27, 2003 – Do Women Really Have Sexual Problems – Called “Female Sexual Dysfunction”1– as some researchers claim?
According to a survey by the Kinsey Institute, an American research center specializing in human sexuality and reproduction, a minority of women experience sexual problems while a majority would rather need rest to be more willing to make love. A survey of 853 women aged 20 to 65 showed that just over 24% of them believed they had sexual problems. A large majority, however, said they lack the time or energy for sex because they are too busy with their children or work.
This investigation occurs shortly after the publication of a text2 in the British Medical Journal denouncing the creation of the concept of “female sexual dysfunction” by the pharmaceutical industry in order to develop new markets like Viagra, a drug treating male impotence. To support the thesis of the disease, the pharmaceutical industry regularly cites a study3, published in 1999, finding that female sexual dysfunction affects 43% of women in the United States.
Asked by BBC News, DD Sandra Leiblum, professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School “believes there is dissatisfaction and perhaps disinterest in a large number of women [relativement au sexe], but that does not mean that we are in the presence of a new disease ”.
The director of the Kinsey Institute, Dr John Bancroft, for his part, believes that associating sexual problems with an illness encourages doctors to prescribe drugs aimed at modifying sexual function. According to him, these problems should rather be solved differently, taking into account other aspects of female life.
Disease or not, research on female sexuality is rife. At Concordia University in Montreal, we are currently testing a nasal spray that would systematically give ladies the taste of “the thing”. In rats, this vaporizer, currently bearing the charming name of PT-1414, tripled the solicitations of females towards males. In addition, recently, women with sexual disorders can count on a new herbal treatment: Avlimil.5 Taking this treatment daily would act on libido and make female orgasms more frequent and more … satisfying.
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According to National Post, January 27, 2003 and BBC News, January 3, 2003.
1. Female sexual dysfunction covers a set of problems: absence of libido, aversion to sexuality, delay or absence of orgasm, difficulty in entering a state of arousal or genital pain before, during and after penetration.
2. Moynihan R. The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction.BMJ 2003 Jan 4; 326 (7379): 45-7. [Consulté le 10 février 2003].
3. Laumann EO, Paik A, Rosen RC. Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors.JAMA 1999 Feb 10; 281 (6): 537-44. [Consulté le 10 février 2003]. .
4. Discovery. PT-141: A really effective aphrodisiac? Radio-Canada.ca. [Consulté le 26 février 2003]. http://radio-canada.ca/tv/decouverte
5. For more information about Avlimil: www.avlimil.com
