According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Sexual Female Dysfunction (FSD) can be physical or psychological causes that can keep women from enjoying sex. It can range from lack of desire to painful intercourse. It's advised to seek a "health provider" if sexual functions cause distress for you or your partner for longer than several months.
Here come the complaints. People (women) are concerned as to why there are substances men can take, but why there aren't any for women. For example, Levitra is for men with Erectile Dysfunction. Women now want a "viagra for women." The difficulty here is actually understanding the problem behind female versus male sexual dysfunction.
FSD may exist, but the solutions or treatments for it vary a great deal when compared to men. According to MayoClinic.com, "viagra for women" doesn't necessarily exist or is proven very efficient because arousal issues for women can't easily be treated with just a pill. There are many other factors both psychologically and physically that affect women's ability to enjoy sex.
This is where marketing to uninformed women takes play. If people didn't do research on their own, they wouldn't realize that commercials such as Lexafem may not actually work as well as the company hypes it to. According the Lexafem website (lexafem.com), it's a pill that is supposed to:- Deeply intensifying sexual sensations
- Increasing vaginal lubrication
- Speeding total body arousal
- Adding passion back to your intimate encounters
- And putting regular, pleasurable orgasms back within your grasp!
Did they forget to take into consideration that these women might possibly be emotionally distressed, or that some even may be severely depressed? Their magical pill probably doesn't have antidepressants or anything along those lines. Therefore, it'll probably only work for a portion of the female population with FSD. They of course don't tell these women that there are other factors to take into consideration.
(http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/viagra-for-women/AN01987/METHOD=print)
Marketing to women who don't fully understand what's wrong with them is their way of making profit. Reading or watching commercials about what could possibly be the reason you're not having a fantastic time in bed could make anyone if not everyone wonder if they have FSD too. And if the solution is as easy as it is for men, why not give it some credit, right? Not. People have to keep in mind
that these companies are out for their benefit, not ours. It's only $60/month ... we can all afford to give up that much on a hunch right? ... Not all of us. Okay, honestly ... the majority of us can't. But since "putting regular, pleasurable orgasms back within your grasp!" sounds so tempting, there are plenty of women who would fall into their trap.
This video is a perfect example of what people should know before jumping on any bandwagon.
- Paulina
Marketing to women who don't fully understand what's wrong with them is their way of making profit. Reading or watching commercials about what could possibly be the reason you're not having a fantastic time in bed could make anyone if not everyone wonder if they have FSD too. And if the solution is as easy as it is for men, why not give it some credit, right? Not. People have to keep in mind
that these companies are out for their benefit, not ours. It's only $60/month ... we can all afford to give up that much on a hunch right? ... Not all of us. Okay, honestly ... the majority of us can't. But since "putting regular, pleasurable orgasms back within your grasp!" sounds so tempting, there are plenty of women who would fall into their trap.This video is a perfect example of what people should know before jumping on any bandwagon.
- Paulina
I think what is most interesting about "sexual disfunction" in both sexes is how the disease is growing to encompass more and more symptoms. At first "erectile dysfunction" was the hot new topic. It was basically a fancy new word for impotence - the inability to get an erection. However, erectile dysfunction is now just one disorder under an umbrella of disorders known as "sexual dysfunctions". Apparently, If I can't enjoy sex as much as I once did (despite still being able to maintain an erection) I have a sexual dysfunction.
ReplyDeleteI believe the reason for creating the umbrella term sexual dysfunction was simple: profitability. Why? because the female equivalent to viagra has been around since forever: sex lubricant.
Yes, viagra corrects mechanical problems in the male genitalia, and sex lubricant corrects the mechanical problems in the female genitalia.
Of course, If women really want a pill like men have... then that pill is gonna have to tackle plenty more sexual problems.
I think that this is a very interesting topic, because I personally do not understand why not desiring sex as often as someone did when they are younger is a disease. We as humans, and especially women, have bodies designed to have babies from the approximate age of 18-25. And how is this done? Through sexual intercourse. Of course we are going to have a higher sex drive at a younger age, because that is the child bearing age. As women become older, they have more stresses in life and are meant to focus on caring for the children, not creating more. This is just a part of life that scientists have decided to medicalize is how it seems to me and you make a very good point at this.
ReplyDelete-Melissa W
Paulina, I'm glad you addressed the fact that there are many reason's for women's lack of interest in sex...and many of them are psychological. Although I am an advocate for women being in control of their sexual health, it seems that a pill is not the answer. Perhaps it is the answer for some women, but for the majority of women, its more complicated than that.
ReplyDeleteLee Edward Jameson - I totally agree with what you've said. There seems to be a pill for everything, and if there's an "off" day or moment in life, it's considered a "dysfunction." Funny how people can't just accept the fact that life just isn't perfect, the human body isn't perfect, there will be ups and downs... it doesn't mean we're all sick.
ReplyDeleteMelissa - It is interesting. There seems to be a "scientific" analysis and explanation to everything. It's slightly silly to put all of our trust in these people just because they have the degree supposedly credible enough to be saying that this or that is considered facts.
Monica - Thanks ~ I just don't see why people have to pin it on a disorder and it needs to be cured by medication.
Oops, I forgot to put my name on the last comment.
ReplyDelete- Paulina N.