{"id":1889,"date":"2010-06-14T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2010-06-14T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:00:48","slug":"read-meika-loe-on-female-viagra-over-at-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2010\/06\/14\/read-meika-loe-on-female-viagra-over-at-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Meika Loe on &#8220;female viagra&#8221; over at Ms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I got a call from a reporter asking what I thought of &#8220;viagra for women.&#8221; I said a bunch of different stuff, but mainly I pointed out that any clinical trial on interventions for women&#8217;s orgasms really ought to include a men-doing-housework control group. My how times have <em>not<\/em> changed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/files\/picture-2726.jpg\" alt=\"Meika Loe\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/> To wit:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colgate.edu\/academics\/facultydirectory?fID=3934\"> Meika Loe<\/a>&#8211;a sociology professor at Colgate&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/female-viagra-up-for-fda-review\/\">posted<\/a> at <em>Ms.<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/female-viagra-up-for-fda-review\/\">&#8220;Female Viagra&#8221; Up for FDA Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Loe, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rise-Viagra-Little-Changed-America\/dp\/0814752004\">The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America<\/a>, <\/em>has followed the search for pink viagra since 1998 when Viagra was first approved by the FDA. Read her post: it gives background and context and a powerful argument about what this all means.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more? Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/newviewcampaign.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">newviewcampaign.org<\/a>. They are an organization founded in 2000 to counter drug industry efforts to simplify and distort women&#8217;s sexuality in order to sell drugs.<\/p>\n<p>You can read\/sign a petition against FDA approval <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/view\/low_sexual_desire_is_not_a_disease_stop_fda_approval_of_flibanserin\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/view\/low_sexual_desire_is_not_a_disease_stop_fda_approval_of_flibanserin\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?page_id=31\">Virginia Rutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I got a call from a reporter asking what I thought of &#8220;viagra for women.&#8221; I said a bunch of different stuff, but mainly I pointed out that any clinical trial on interventions for women&#8217;s orgasms really ought to include a men-doing-housework control group. My how times have not changed. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}