“BACK in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters, and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth,” sexually-frank novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying, 1973) observed, “they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild—and what happened? The men wilted.” It might be this assumption on women’s “coldness” that made our current research literature thin on female sexual dysfunctions (FSD). And recent interest in FSD may signal a change in that area. With the few studies available, statistics tells us that 40 percent of women in America have FSD. And as women age... [ Read more. ] This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 3 November 2010 as "Growing interest in sexual satisfaction."
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