Okay, I respect people's right to be asexual and define themselves as such and to point out that it's not a pathology.

But when someone makes a statement like this:
"For me it basically just means that I don't look at people and think 'hmm yeah I'd have sex with you,' that just doesn't happen," says Jenni.I get up from my seat and break into the ' ( Read more... )

I am quite strongly moved to respond to today's 'Private Lives' query in Guardian G2:
'How can I get my libido back?'I have been shocked to find that for two years since my last period I have lost my libido as I knew it. I did not realise how reliant I was on my monthly cycle. I feel old and unattractive. My husband is incredibly understanding, but ( Read more... )

Urrggh, aaaargh, eeeeeeeuuuuuuwww, etc to the gospel that Catherine Hakim is preaching in Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital. Interview with Zoe Williams here, and you get the distinct impression that Zoe wished she'd taken a codfish with here, and review of the noxious thing by Will Self, which is a bit point thahr misst (wot duz e no about ( Read more... )

Yes, Dr Freud, did it never cross your mind that you ought, as well, or possibly even instead, to be asking 'What do MEN want?'.

Thinking about this vis a vis the perhaps inadvisable reading of the comments to the article I linked yesterday, in which (presumably) male respondents were saying both 'I'd love it if my girlfriend/wife woke me with sex ( Read more... )

Further to this, this article in today's Guardian makes many cogent points, e.g.
Fry's spectacular ability to entirely dismiss the culture of shame, sexual threat and social stigma associated with female sexuality seems offensively myopic.

but then rather shoots itself in the foot in the final paragraph, alas:
The uncomfortable truth is that gay or ( Read more... )

(Which I have not been updating with because her blog address has changed - I've raised a support request to change the DW feed to reflect this).

Is low sexual desire in women a disease? No it’s not. But drug company are seeking FDA approval for a drug to ‘cure’ women nonetheless.

FDA Committee hearing on Flibanserin tomorrow (18 June) - how you ( Read more... )