Having low hormone levels do not necessarily mean that your desire for sex will shrivel up like styrofoam in a campfire. Sex, and our desire for sex, is dependent on many, many elements and hormones are just one of them. For most women having a healthy relationship with her partner, being attracted to her partner, …
Continue ReadingResponse from a patient on the “medicalization” of female sexuality debate.
We received an unsolicited response to Dr. Marcus’ position piece on the “medicalization” of female sexuality from a patient. Her words speak for themselves. “The last time I was in the office I told Dr.Marcus that she will be remembered for her contribution to Female Sexuality the way that Margaret Sanger was with birth control. …
Continue ReadingOur sexual culture and The New York Times.
The latest public figure to make journalistic hay from the flibanserin controversy is Camille Paglia, whose editorial in The New York Times, ”No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class, “ seems to be getting some play on my twitter feed. It’s a fun read, but she throws a lot of things together that I’m not sure …
Continue ReadingBut things weren’t always like this….
If I had a nickel every time a woman told me about her sexual situation with her husband and concluded with, “But it was never like that,” I would be a wealthy woman. After being married for 10 or 15 years, people compare what is going on in their relationship currently with what it was …
Continue ReadingDifferent roads.
I am often struck by the varying and disparate ways in which we solve problems. I am fascinated by the variety of routes people take on their way to a solution. I saw a long time patient today whose situation provided such a great example of this concept. She is a 45 year old woman …
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