Pharmaceutical companies would like very much to find "Viagra for women." The clinical trials of Viagra don't show an effect for women (which is not to say individual women might not enjoy it, a la' Samantha), though what the right measure is for female sexual function is contested (desire? doppler ultrasound measurements of blood flow? self-reported arousal?). Related, this had led to all sorts of fascinating scientific musings about the "complicated nature" of female desire and its elusive and diffuse location in... the female brain? endocrine system? psyche? The comparison, of course, is to male desire, which is posited to be more constant and less problematic - even in men with erectile dysfunction (as if that's just a mechanical issue, a problem with hydraulics) - and (as if to evoke Potter Stewart's "I know it when I see it") certainly more easily located.
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Posted by twilight blue to academicsecret at 8/15/2006 01:27:15 AM
