The backlash against flibanserin ignores female individualityIt is the 1960s,and for the first time, the contraceptive pill has become widely available. While many women occupy welcomed it, or some feminist groups occupy condemned it as a terrible form of exploitation: women being forced to stuff themselves with hormones that mess with their natural biological rhythms just to be able to pleasure men without inconveniencing them with a pregnancy and the consequent marital obligations.
A ludicrous-sounding alternative reality,upright? Everyone knows that feminists heralded the pill as the dawn of female sexual liberation. But is there a strain of this extreme form of feminist argument, so concerned about the exploitation of gender that it rides roughshod over any notions of individual agency, and in the debate now raging about flibanserin?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com