The Sex Doctor is in...FINALLY!

This is something we talk about in my classes a lot, how much of the medical profession ignores the sexual health part of people, as if it isn't important. Thank goodness that philosophy is changing!

"Next week in San Diego, Dr. Irwin Goldstein will open the doors of the nation’s first holistic, hospital-based sexual medicine center. San Diego Sexual Medicine will draw upon multidisciplinary fields to diagnose and treat the sexual complaints of patients, says Goldstein.

This could be a revolution in the treatment of sexual complaints. Or, others argue, it could be another step toward inventing disease to serve a pharmaceutical industry bent on creating expensive drugs to fix what isn’t really broken.

The need for some way for the medical community to better address sexual concerns was made clear during a presentation by Dr. Sandra Carson, an ob-gyn at Brown University and the editor of the journal Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause. Carson practically begged the assembled doctors, mostly ob-gyns, to pay some attention to their patients’ sex lives.

I'd totally go here...I still can't believe that the majority of medical schools only have 2 hours of sexual health education (or less, according to speakers I've heard). Sexuality permeates all of our health- physical, mental and emotional, so make sure you're taking care of yourelf!

Essin' Em

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