I invented it myself - I will cure myself

In the January issue of the British Medical Journal, an article was published that a disease called “female sexual dysfunction”, which became considered widespread, was actually “invented” by researchers on the initiative of Viagra and other means to increase potency. Despite the fact that the market for such drugs is huge (in 2001 only Viagra was sold for one and a half billion dollars), pharmaceutical firms are interested in consuming not only men, but also women. It was these companies of the funncy that gave a number of studies that established the existence of a special disease that determines the sexual “failure” of women. At the same time, the articles in authoritative journals did not contain a section in which information about sponsors and customers of work would be given. Back in the late 90s, the professor of sociology of the University of Chicago, Ed Laumann, analyzed the article “Sexual Dysfunction in the United States: the prevalence and factors of the risk”, published in the journal of the American copper of the Qing Association; The authors of which claimed that 43% of women aged 18 to 59 years are subject to this disorder. Laumann said that the results of the study cannot be recognized as correct, since during the determination of the disease too vague criteria were used. So, the diagnosis was made if at least one of the seven questions of the questionnaire (for example, this: “Did you feel the decrease in sexual desire over the past year?”) The subjects gave a positive answer. However, the article by Laumann, like many others, went unnoticed. As a result, the diagnosis of “female sexual dysfunction” has become very fashionable: it was increasingly set by women in case of any sexual problems. And every time it turned out that this ailment is “treated” best to Viagra or her analogues.