From Bloomberg: “The counterattack against the drug has been furious, and in many instances led by women. These forces contend that one womanâs sexual abnormal is another womanâs normal, and itâs not uncommon for a womanâs desire to wax and wane throughout her life. They say itâs more typical for women to respond to their partnersâ overtures rather than spontaneously feel desire for sexâand that these women shouldnât be shamed by drugmakers into thinking thereâs something wrong with them.
‘Itâs the story of disease mongering. The creation of a condition thatâs really not a condition,’ says Leonore Tiefer, a sex therapist and former co-director of the Sex and Gender Clinic in the department of psychiatry at New Yorkâs Montefiore Medical Center. Tiefer has spent much of the past decade arguing at regulatory meetings and with op-ed pieces that thereâs a wide spectrum of normal sexuality. A woman with a low libido, she argues, doesnât need medication. ‘Whatâs been going on for the past 10 years is a campaign on the part of Big Pharma to recruit doctors as front people and spokespeople to promote a condition that doesnât exist,’ she says.”
