This new
"female Viagra" out on the market, I dunno. Are there really lots of straight women who just don't have strong sex drives? Or is it other things, like, hmmm, I dunno, maybe them being gay and not admitting to that? Or perhaps being clinically depressed? Or perhaps not loving and/or finding their spouses attractive and/or sexually compatible? Or maybe that their spouses are inept lovers? Or maybe they experienced some kind of trauma that has short-circuited their sexual response? Or they have some pathetic religious hang-up that brainfucks them?
Rather than pathologizing the female sexual response, I'd be tempted to look into other factors first, because having actually seen straight woman sexuality in action, I will say that it's a wonderful and marvelous thing to behold. If a woman is into you, you know. It's abundantly clear when she's turned on and excited (heh, "sexcited") by you. It just is. I honor and cherish it!
And when that's not there, then *something* else is at work, there. Either something they're not admitting to, or something. It feels too pat to chalk it up to some kind of hormonal condition, too convenient.
I'm not saying that there may be a small percentage of women who may have some kind of hormonal situation where they simply aren't very sexually driven, have low libidos, but I doubt the majority of women in the prospective market for this drug qualify. It's like the overuse of antidepressants, in my view -- there are, clinically, some people who absolutely do require them, but they're not the majority. And the industry works hard to create that need to sell the product. Take this to feel "normal" -- and make a tidy buck in the process.
I imagine some women taking this drug in lieu of addressing whatever the REAL issue is, and thinking they can somehow fake it till they make it, without getting at whatever the actual problem is. I'm just always wary about the whole "take a pill, make everything right" ethos of our country. We're not a very introspective culture as it is, and the magic pill is just such an American thing.
I mean, even the original Viagra bugged the hell out of me -- what, a guy's so fat and out of shape that he can't get it up? No problem! Take a fucking blue pill and get a stiffy! Yay! What a country! Never mind that the guy should trim down and get in shape so then he'll be able to get hard again. Now he won't have to! He can be just as slovenly and fat as before and still walk around with a boner. *gak* Do some more pushups, fellas. Get fit.
Our culture is very good at pathologizing whole sectors in "need" of a drug. Kid too active? No problem, put'em on antidepressants! Feeling blue? Why not give yourself some, too? I worked with a boss who had serious, serious mental issues -- she should have been institutionalized, I swear. She was on three different antidepressants at the same time, and she was STILL incredibly fucked up (her primo loony-line was saying she wanted to have a child one day, and if it was a boy, she'd abort it, because she only wanted a girl. Mother of the fucking year, there. How fucking creepy is that? Thankfully, there was zero risk of her ever finding some guy blind enough and/or insane enough to impregnate her, although she did adroitly maneuver her way through the adoption system to snag a Third World kid -- horrifying to anybody who knows her, who worked with her. I saw her and the kid on a park bench one day. Apparently, the poor kid is deaf, which might be a boon, since it would mean not having to listen to her psycho bullshit, but on the sad side, the kid's probably thinking "Lord, please deliver me from this insane fucking woman." Her insanity was bad enough for people with hearing; I can't imagine it seen through the eyes of a deaf child.)
Anyway, the point is, there has to be some reason why somebody's got low libido, because our survival as a species depends on libido, for fuck's sake! And we've done alright by it for a very, very long time. I refuse to believe suddenly something's gone wrong and Big Pharma has a pink pill to make it alllll better.
