I was very happy to see a nonmedical opinion piece about what seems to be a nonmedical problem, at least in older adults (those more than, say, 50 years old).1 I have been in clinical practice for nearly 40 years, and the only women I can recall who complained of decreased sexual desire after menopause came in at their husband’s request. In other words, the husband seemed to be the one complaining.
It seems that the lack of desire was not a sensation experienced by the “patient” herself, at least not until she was convinced that she was “abnormal” by her husband or a third party. Rarely was she interested in slathering herself with testosterone cream, for example, to become more desirous.
Indeed, there are conditions that may cause medically (in the usual and strictest sense of the word “medical”)decreased sexual desire that a woman might report to her physician, but in my experience, they were the side effect or result of prescribed medications. Prescribing another medication would likely be a very bad recommendation.
Thank you for providing this kind of forum for some perspective on our modern medical ways. There is precious little evidence of it in our professional publications, and I need it.