Sunday, February 22, 2015

Tiefer and the Medicalization of FSD

This one is gonna be brief, but I wish I had read the final part of Tiefer's book before the beginning parts 1-4. Her style of writing and some of the things she was very opinionated about made me start giving what I read little value. I was so turned off by it. My desire to read the final part of her book first comes from watching Orgasm Inc. in class, which presented FSD through a new source that happened to include Tiefer in the film. Without my already influenced frustrations in her writing guiding my thought processes, it was much easier to watch the documentary and understand exactly where she was coming from regarding the medicalization of sex and more specifically FSD. Its funny to think that all of the nights I sat in my apartment reading her book, filled with thoughts of not liking her, culminated in me smiling when they showed her reaction to the FDA not voting for the approval of whatever the name of that testosterone patch was. I was happy for her for the first time since we started reading her book, and even gained some new insight into exactly where she was coming from in the book.

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