{"id":4124,"date":"2013-03-30T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=4124"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:37:10","slug":"medicalizing-the-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/03\/30\/medicalizing-the-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Medicalizing &quot;The Mood&quot; May Not Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Cristalle Pronier and Elizabeth Monk-Turner , <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09589236.2012.752347\">&ldquo;Factors Shaping Women&#8217;s Sexual Satisfaction: A Comparison of Medical and Social Models,&rdquo; <em>Journal of Gender Studies<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2013<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The hunt for \u201cpink Viagra\u201d&#8212;a medical solution to women&#8217;s so-called sexual dysfunction, identified as an official disorder in 1999&#8212;has so far proven fruitless. Sociologists Cristalle Pronier and Elizabeth Monk-Turner suggest in the <em>Journal of Gender Studies<\/em> that we stop looking. Instead, we need to consider the relational aspects of sex that many women require for satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>After surveying more than 300 female students, staff, and faculty in university community, Pronier and Monk-Turner found that social factors such as feeling intimacy, sexual agency, emotional closeness, and low levels of stress were key to women&#8217;s self-reported sexual satisfaction. Contrary to the pharmaceutical mantra &#8220;a pill for every ill,&#8221; these researchers believe female friskiness (or at least arousal) has fairly little to do with rerouting blood flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristalle Pronier and Elizabeth Monk-Turner , &ldquo;Factors Shaping Women&#8217;s Sexual Satisfaction: A Comparison of Medical and Social Models,&rdquo; Journal of Gender Studies, 2013 The hunt for \u201cpink Viagra\u201d&#8212;a medical solution to women&#8217;s so-called sexual dysfunction, identified as an official disorder in 1999&#8212;has so far proven fruitless. Sociologists Cristalle Pronier and Elizabeth Monk-Turner suggest in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,33],"tags":[37335,3069,176],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-health","tag-gender","tag-medicalization","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8307,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/8307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}