ABSTRACT
Publicity about new treatments for men's erection problems has focused attention on women's sexuality and provoked a competitive commercial hunt for "the female Viagra." The three most serious distortions produced by a framework that reduces sexual problems to disorders of physiological function, comparable to breathing or digestive disorders. First, a false notion of sexual equivalency between men and women. Because the early researchers emphasized similarities in men's and women's physiological responses during sexual activities. Second, the erasure of the relational context of sexuality. Third, the levelling of differences among women. All women are not the same, and their sexual needs, satisfactions, and problems do not fit neatly into categories of desire, arousal, orgasm, or pain. In 1974, the World Health Organization held a unique conference on the training needs for sexual health workers. In order to assure that human beings and societies develop healthy sexuality," the Declaration stated, "the sexual rights must be recognized, promoted, respected, and defended".
