A Different Story About Desire

With an FDA hearing looming for pharmaceutical manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim about their experimental sex drug Flibanserin, they are ramping up their marketing efforts, softening up all of us to accept their particular story about female desire, which is that it's gone, but if they tweak the brain it'll come back.
Where did it go, you ask? Do all younger women report higher levels of desire and then suddenly at a certain age it just disappears, you wonder? These are good questions. One of the responses you hear is that we don't know. That there's no good research about female sexuality. But that's part of the same story, the one that ends with a pill and a simple answer. Because the more complicated answer is that there's actually quite a bit of research on female sexuality. And some of it includes the actual voices of women, talking about sexuality.
In an effort to present the possibility of a different narrative than the one being marketed by a for profit drug company, members of the New View Campaign have put together an easy to read summary of 27 studies which offer different narratives about female sexuality and desire. There are actually many more studies they could have included, but to provide a reasonable point of comparison they stuck with mainly empirical studies. It seems to me that whatever your current opinion is on the value of taking a brain drug to address a sexual problem, why wouldn't you want to get more information about the way that sexual problems are constructed in the first place, and how other researchers have approached addressing them.