Libido is a myth

Women's lack of desire is not pathological. It’s political.

This is the first installment in a series of essays on the concept of ‘libido’ and the medicalization of desire. These essays evolved from one I wrote for a major publication. That essay was killed in the final stages of editing, so I’ve expanded the work and am including in the series writing that otherwise would have been cut out. In a future essay fo…