A few months ago a New York woman called her gynecologist to find out whether her birth control pills were ruining her sex drive.
It would be the ultimate irony. Could medication created to liberate women be the cause of her yearlong struggle with a waning libido? Could the pill really reduce sex drive? Turns out it can.
"I called my gynecologist and she said 'Oh yeah, that's a side effect,'" said the woman, who is 24 and did not want her real name used. "It was like she expected it - I couldn't believe she never mentioned that it could happen."
The woman's gynecologist is just one member of a larger scientific community that routinely downplays a problem that's …
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