The way we talk about the US opioid crisis speaks volumes about whose pain gets taken most seriously
Not to sound like a serial killer or an angsty teenager, but I am obsessed with pain at the moment. This is partly due to an excellent essay by Lili Loofbourow, recently published in the Week, on “the female price of male pleasure”.
The article has gone viral, so you may be familiar with it already. If not, the premise is that, when it comes to sex, “we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right”. Loofbourow points out, for example, that PubMed, a biomedical search engine, “has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain”.
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