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Today’s program is Dr. Leonore Tiefer giving the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, conducted in 2011. This conference was organized by the Simon Fraser University Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Dr. Tiefer says everyone’s sexuality is different, there is no “normal”- that efforts to define a normal and produce it through medication fail, and that “sex belongs with dancing, not digestion.” She calls for research on the actual effects of sex drugs, including Viagra, on how couples relate in the real world.
Speaker bio: Dr. Leonore Tiefer has doctorates in physiological psychology and in clinical psychology with a specialty in sexology. She has taught at two medical schools and co-founded The New View Campaign against pharmaceutical corruption and cooptation of the sexology field.
The keynote address was recorded, edited and updated by Frieda Werden. The Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been covering the global women’s movement and related topics for community radio since 1986. Contact WINGS at [email protected] or [email protected].
