His and Her Health

Friday, 3 January, 2003, 01:33 GMT<BR>Myth of female impotence 'created' <P><BR>The British Medical Journal ! has an article outlining a conspiracy between drug comapnies and Drs to tell women they have a problem!<P>"Drug companies are now looking to recreate that kind of market with female sexual dysfunction, says the BMJ.<P>Drugs do have a role as part of a mechanism for dealing with sexual disorders<P>Dr John Dean, British Society for Sexual and Impotence Research<BR>It says females sexual problems are being wrongly "medicalised", and the numbers affected exaggerated.<P>It also suggests some researchers are too closely linked to drug companies who sponsor conferences and research.<P>Disinterest<P>In the article, researcher Ray Moynihan said: "A cohort of researchers with close ties to drug companies are working with colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry to develop and define a new category of human illness at meetings heavily sponsored by companies racing to develop new drugs."<P>Some doctors say coining the phrase "female sexual dysfunction" makes an illness out of normal changes in women's sexual feelings which may happen after childbirth or being with the same partner for many years.<P>Dr Sandra Leiblum, professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School said: "I think there is dissatisfaction and perhaps disinterest among a lot of women, but that doesn't mean they have a disease."<P>And Dr John Bancroft, director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University said: "The danger of portraying sexual difficulties as a dysfunction is that they are likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when the attention should be paid to other aspects of a woman's life.<P>"It's also likely to make women think they have a malfunction when they do not." "<P>Doesn't it make you want to weep! <P>Luckily the people interviewed by the BBC seem to be balanced yep women have problems some of which should not be dealt with by drugs and some of which do.<P>Why is it all such an up hill struggle ? How can people who really have problems have the help they need when the medical profession is so blinkered!<P><BR>[Note: This message has been edited by NEWSHE Moderator]<BR><p>[Note: This message has been edited by NEWSHE Moderator]

It is outrageous!<P>This doctor Ray Moynihan is obviously troubled by tunnel vision.<P>It means he can't or isn't willing to see the viewpoint of women. He thinks there is a substantial difference between the sexual experience of men and women. How come that even the army is willing to subscribe millions of dollars worth of viagra for its conscriptants? Maybe sexual dysfunction for MEN should be accepted aa a natural status too and not a DISEASE?<P>I tell you, the viewpoint of this docter is influenced by the many MEN in his profession. If there were more WOMEN the FSD would have been resolved long before viagra hit the shelves!<P>I am very angry with this docter! He obviously doesn't understand female feelings at all! Women have as much a need for quality orgasms as men do!<BR>How would mister Moynihan feel if his mind suddenly stopped playing sexual fantasies? If his orgasms suddenly subsided from superb into shallow filsmy experiences? Would he say to himself: "It is only a natural thing?"<BR>Somehow I do not think so!<P>I started being afflicted by FSD at the age of 30. At that time I was a very happy person, not bothered by mind troubles, a succesful carreer, lovely parents, wonderful friends, beautiful car and my body in perfect shape. I have no children and at that time did not have a partner (so couldn't be bored by one either). How then does the learned docter explain my symptoms?<P>Ladies, please do not be disoriented by this guy! We have a definite cause and are worthy of profound treatment as much as any MAN, doctor or not, who walks this blasphemous earth!<P>So do not stray!<P>I am seething!!!!<BR>Maria

A friend of mine, who knows I have pretty strong feelings about things like this, forwarded me the link to this horrible article, knowing I'd want to post it here for discussion. <P>I am so furious I could flog this man--it's like he's trying to put us back hundreds of years. It's times like this when I realize *WHY* my husband and I were put through such hell when we sought help: idiots like this guy still get degrees. It's not ignorance. Ignorance I could take. It's stupidity I cannot stomach.<P>Don't you wish there was a way to get people like this out of the medical and psych professions? Okay, off to cool down.