How do you discuss sexual dysfunction when it’s just not something people like to talk about? How can you get help or help someone you care about?
Women in particular face stereotypes that often keep them silent about their sexual health, says Dr. Lori Brotto, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a psychologist with a clinical practice focused on sexual health.
“The taboos definitely still linger, and there are still stereotypes, like for middle-aged women, sex ends in middle age, or it ends with menopause. Or if you have desire and sex starts, you’re promiscuous,” she says.
“My journey into women’s health has been primarily through sex research, where many years ago I conducted research using animal models of sexual dysfunction in male rats. Then the approval of Viagra for men led me to ask the question: What about women?”
She identified a huge unmet need to address sexual dysfunction and turned her attention to human female sexuality.
What about women?
The little blue pill for men changed public and medical attitudes and redefined erectile dysfunction as a legitimate and treatable medical condition. More than 15 years after the launch of Viagra, followed by countless other medications for male erectile dysfunction, the little pink pill Addyi (flibanserin) to boost female sexual desire was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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