Article info
Viewpoint
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: inventing a disease to sell low libido
- Correspondence to Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd. N.W., Med-Dent SE 402, Washington DC 20007, USA; ajf29{at}georgetown.edu
Citation
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: inventing a disease to sell low libido
Publication history
- Received November 24, 2014
- Revised May 22, 2015
- Accepted June 2, 2015
- First published June 29, 2015.
Online issue publication
September 24, 2015
Article Versions
- Previous version (29 June 2015).
- You are viewing the most recent version of this article.
Supplementary Data
This web only file has been produced by the BMJ Publishing Group from an electronic file supplied by the author(s) and has not been edited for content.
- Data supplement 1 - Online appendix
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions
Other content recommended for you
- The unethical use of ethical rhetoric: the case of flibanserin and pharmacologisation of female sexual desire
- Bremelanotide and flibanserin for low sexual desire in women: the fallacy of regulatory precedent
- Merging of marketing and medical science: female sexual dysfunction
- What are the prevalence and factors associated with sexual dysfunction in breastfeeding women? A Brazilian cross-sectional analytical study
- Evening the score on sex drugs: feminist movement or marketing masquerade?
- Evidence & Ethics: Once More into the Fray
- The marketing of a disease: female sexual dysfunction
- US drug agency approves drug for low sexual desire in women
- What factors are associated with reporting lacking interest in sex and how do these vary by gender? Findings from the third British national survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles
- FDA advisers to assess drug for low sexual desire in women