The Shocking Truth About Female Impotence
Ebony, Feb, 1999 by Melissa Ewey
For women suffering from female impotence, attempts to find the joy in sex can be harrowing, disappointing, and often painful. Although everybody talks about male impotence, defined as the inability to enjoy sex or adequately perform sexual intercourse, impotence appears to be more common among women.
According to a recent University of Chicago study, one in three women have a significant lack of interest in sex. This means that tens of millions of women are suffering in silence, with explosive and potentially devastating effects on relationships and marriages. Until recently, impotent women are ignored while men benefited from dozens of treatment and medications such as Viagra. The issue of female impotency has only recently been addressed, and found to be just as treatable.
In prior generations, sex was thought of as something a woman did to please her mate and to make babies, certainly not for her own gratification. If she did not like having sex. It was just as well, because she wasn't expected to. For many Black women, that belief holds true even today.
"There are a lot a women who have sex but absolutely do not enjoy it," says Dr. Ken Taylor, an obstetrician and gynecologist based in Atlanta. "They go through their whole lives having sex just to please a man, and never experience any pleasure themselves."
The idea that women are not entitled to sexual pleasure stems from early lessons about sexuality, according to Dr. Debra George, a Los Angeles-based psychologist and licensed marriage/ family therapist. She believes the sexual revolution passed by most Black women, who learned a lot of unrealistic, old-fashioned notion about sex from their mothers. "We had to wait until something happened before we were told anything," says Dr. George, who is pleased to see more women embracing their sexuality in a responsible manner. "The younger generation is being raised without the old misconceptions," she explains. "They're being educated about sex sooner and more comprehensively."
Despite this gradual change in attitude, there are several psychological and physical barriers preventing women from enjoying sex.
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