Sex Drive: In Pursuit of Female Desire

Sex Drive: In Pursuit of Female Desire by Ellwood-Clayton, Dr. Bella. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781741756661.

For many women an active sex life is on the bottom of their "to do" list—is womens sexual desire in the Western world at an all time low? A sexual anthropologist investigates. Lack of libido is womens most common sexual problem, and once in a secure relationship, a womans sex drive often begins to plummet. Exploring what libido is and why it is being depleted, this book argues that women dont want sex because they dont feel sexy. At a time when womens libidos are being threatened by the wider forces of media, marketing, and medication and increasingly pressured lives, who can blame them? With increasing numbers of women with low libido being diagnosed as "sexually dysfunctional," the race to create a "pink Viagra" is on. This book engages such questions as Do we have unrealistic expectations about our sex drive? Who defines what is normal and abnormal? And could "low libido" in fact be the natural order of things? Provocative, authoritative, and engaging, this book is both fascinating reading and sure to create passionate debate.