In a recent News Hour segment on PBS television, doctors and researchers pointed out that female sexual topics were largely ignored in medical school where mostly male lecturers knew almost nothing about the topic and chose to gloss over it. Instead, they focused on male sexual anatomy and its various diseases and dysfunctions.
Urologist Rachel Rubin noted that when she attended medical school, there were 27 fields of specialization in men's sexual health but only one dealing with female sexual health. This meant that women experiencing sexual difficulties literally had nowhere to go in the medical field.
Why was women's sexual health so thoroughly neglected? The PBS segment offers two possible explanations. The first is that physicians and scientists looked upon women primarily as baby-producing machines. The other is that female sexual pleasure was perceived as shameful.
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