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Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD)
Alan Cassels, a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria said:
“The main hurdle (for – Addyi – approval) was to try and define the disease,”…
“And I think (Sprout) bamboozled the FDA into considering this a disease.”…
“This (HSDD-targeting) drug will be marketed to everyone who doesn’t want to have sex, for whatever reason – the ‘Not tonight, honey, I have a headache’ market.“…
“The market has been shaped around turning lack of desire into a disease and I think it’s highly problematic,” … “This idea that you can tamper with and increase sexual desire with a pill – this is the brave new world.”…
Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman , Director of PharmedOut, Georgetown University Medical Center said:
“Creating a diagnosis gives a company monopoly over the market it created,” …
Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI)
Ray Rosen, the psychiatrist who led the FSFI panel said:
“Obviously, there’s no biochemical thing you can measure to say ‘this women has so much desire,’ so it has to be a subjective rating of some kind,”…
Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman , Director of PharmedOut, Georgetown University Medical Center said:
“The industry-generated tests are rigged tests, designed to make healthy people think they are ill,”… “They medicalize normal human variation and normal ups and downs.”…
Sources and more information
- FSFI © Questionnaire PDF File.
- FSFI Scoring Appendix PDF File.
- The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function, Journal of Marital and Sex Therapy: 2000: 26:191-208.
- Drug industry links run deep in field of sexual medicine,
medicalxpress, August 20, 2015. - Female Viagra’ okayed in U.S., may come to Canada, thestar, Aug 19 2015.
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thanks Erik