I read the article. I understand the anger but "we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right"? That seems oversimplified to say the least. The writer for that article took four or five--or more--separate problems and threw them into a blender and pushed start.
"These days, a man can walk out of his doctor's office with a prescription for Viagra based on little but a self-report, but it still takes a woman, on average, 9.28 years of suffering to be diagnosed with endometriosis, a condition caused by endometrial tissue growing outside the uterus."
One of these things is not like the other?
It is true that pharmaceutical companies are making money hand over fist selling Viagra, etc. to men. That's a pretty easy study to design, plus there is a big cohort of patients ready to enroll in clinical trials. Having experienced dyspareunia first hand, I would agree wholeheartedly that more attention should be paid, but painful intercourse--regardless of the cause--is not so easy to diagnose or to treat as erectile dysfunction. And it made me angry to have the problems I and other women have suffered put into the same category as Grace and her no good very bad celebrity date. These are not the same problem and lumping them together isn't helping anyone.
Sorry. I can go on and on so I am stopping now. When I calm down maybe I'll go write in my own journal about it. I do very much appreciate the link.
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"These days, a man can walk out of his doctor's office with a prescription for Viagra based on little but a self-report, but it still takes a woman, on average, 9.28 years of suffering to be diagnosed with endometriosis, a condition caused by endometrial tissue growing outside the uterus."
One of these things is not like the other?
It is true that pharmaceutical companies are making money hand over fist selling Viagra, etc. to men. That's a pretty easy study to design, plus there is a big cohort of patients ready to enroll in clinical trials. Having experienced dyspareunia first hand, I would agree wholeheartedly that more attention should be paid, but painful intercourse--regardless of the cause--is not so easy to diagnose or to treat as erectile dysfunction. And it made me angry to have the problems I and other women have suffered put into the same category as Grace and her no good very bad celebrity date. These are not the same problem and lumping them together isn't helping anyone.
Sorry. I can go on and on so I am stopping now. When I calm down maybe I'll go write in my own journal about it. I do very much appreciate the link.