And the drugging of women goes on

In the 1970s, irresponsible doctors (I would say criminally irresponsible) got millions of women hooked on something as bad as heroin, Valium, to drug them through an unjust and intolerable life as second-class citizens, renewing prescription after prescription and creating a generation of legal-drug addicts, with permanent consequences to physical and mental health that have been well documented.

And now we have another fantastic solution to women’s issues, this time a pill to help women of a certain age have sex with men they no longer want to have sex with.

Because of course, when a woman’s only option for sex is a man to whom she is not attracted, then it’s a “libido problem” (in other words, something wrong with her) and not a situational problem which can be fixed by changing the situation rather than by drugging those involved.

The solution to not wanting to sleep with Man X is sleeping with Man Y, but that isn’t allowed and can cause all kinds of domestic disruption, so another ‘solution’ has been found: drugging the woman to make her amenable to sleeping with Man X.

It’s fascinating, isn’t it, the way a woman’s loss of sexual interest in her life partner is categorised as low libido in general rather than as what it actually is (she doesn’t fancy him), whereas when a man loses sexual interest in his life partner everyone is quick to point out that it’s because she’s no longer a spring chicken and should try to make herself more alluring.

It’s enough to make anyone an angry feminist.

The tragic thing is that you have women’s lobby groups actually campaigning to get this stupid pill onto the market, because they see it as a matter of equality. If men have Viagra then women should have their version too, they say. As if the two situations are comparable biologically or psychologically. Women don’t have sexual dysfunction brought on by age-related plumbing problems. With women it’s all emotional, and there’s generally a very good reason why a woman doesn’t want to sleep with a man.

What next – pills to make women happy to wash the floor while everyone else tramples all over it? Oh sorry, been there already and done that back in 1970-whatever.