Is It a Feminist Right to Want More Sex? One Company Thinks a Pill Is the Answer – Kaiser Health News

Read article - Continued coverage of comments by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a "disease awareness" campaign for a pill called Addyi from Sprout Pharmaceuticals, and how these types of campaigns trouble critics because of the attempts to define low sexual desire as a widespread disease that is treatable with a pill. "[Sprout is] definitely appropriating all that language, making it seem like a feminist issue," says Woloshin. "This is an issue that involves women, but that doesn't mean that taking this drug is something you should do because you're a feminist."