Saturday October 03, 2009
Why Is Big Pharma Trying to Tell You How to Have Sex?
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Nation
Female sexual dysfunction was wholly created by drug companies hoping to make even bigger money off women than they have off men.
In the beginning there was sex. And sex begat skill, and skill (or its absence) begat judgment, and judgment begat insecurity, and insecurity begat doctors' visits, which begat treatments, which have flourished into a multibillion-dollar industry, so that sex between men and women is today almost inconceivable without the shadow of disorder, dysfunction, the "little blue pill" or myriad other medical interventions designed to bring sex back to some longed-for beginning: a state of certified healthfulness, the illusion of normal.
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