The Myth of FSAD

….and how it will cost the American Public Big Money

The pharmaceutical companies are on the war path again….medicalizing a normal behavior so they can sell brainwashed women a drug to make them feel like they want sex…even when they don’t really want to.

You know those times, when you really do have a headache. Or, the kids have run you ragged all day. Or, your boss blamed you once again for a major mistake with a client that he really made…or your husband hasn’t showered in days, went out in the mud on the atv, and now wants to “get it on.”

You got it…those times too. Just pop a little pill and you’ll be all set…ready to jump in the sack and have a great time. Yeah…right….

All this is based on a survey done in 1992, (hello what have you done recently?) at the University of Chicago. (In the interest of full disclosure, UC was where I went to school way back when to get my Masters degree.)

In this survey, 1,500 women were asked to answer yes or no to seven questions, including things like lack of desire for sex, anxieties about “sexual performance,” and difficulties with lubrication, that had gone on for at least 2 months.

If the women answered yes to just one question…they were included in the group experiencing “sexual dysfunction.”

Since 43% of the women admit to at least one problem, they were labeled Sexually Dysfunctional.

Pretty scary, right? You have a yeast infection that lasts forever, as some of them can, and you’re sexually dysfunctional.

Your husband is having an affair and for some reason you have no interest in having sex, and you’re sexually dysfunctional.

Or, my personal favorite…you’ve stopped lubricating as well as you used to. Menopause hit with a big thud. You’re sexually dysfunctional.

This is a big duh. Lessening of lubrication occurs because you don’t have the same amount of hormones after menopause. They’ve now made a normal part of aging a dysfunction.

Will it surprise you to learn big pharma is hot on the heels of developing special meds to fix this disorder…you know…the one you didn’t know you had and aren’t really all that concerned with.

But it has a huge market…almost half of the women of a certain age will “need” this pill.
Think of the profits, think of how many men will eagerly to buy their wives the new pills, think of the unknown side effects.

Think of how specious the research is that this whole mess is based on.

I think I’ll pass.