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Emily Impett, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto

Learned, not broken: Why we need to fix the pleasure gap, not women’s libido

We are in the midst of a sex recession. Young people today are having half as much sex as previous generations did, roughly the same amount as seniors.

Solutions to this decline tend to place the burden on women. Go online and you’ll find endless advice urging women to get their sex drive back. Self-help books, herbal supplements and pharmaceutical ads promise to reignite female libido, as if women’s desire is something that mysteriously breaks and needs to be repaired.

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