Well that makes sense. Because we all know women are sexless creatures who despise doing the deed and only do it during our child bearing years because it’s out duty. *eyeroll*

If the woman is complaining of painful intercourse, clearly she does!

This is another example of a doctor who doesn’t know how to solve the problem trying to tell the patient it isn’t actually a problem at all, and there’s something wrong with her if she thinks it is.

Speak for yourself. If a woman is complaining she obviously does want to have sex. It’s a gyn’s job to help her.

Heather P, I’m not sure if you comment refers to mine, but my comment is just sarcasm… Thought I’d clarify that just in case

Let me get this straight. If a 60 year old man goes to the doctor complaining of difficulty getting an erection they are usually prescribed tiny blue pills, right?

If a 60 year old man is married to a 60 year old woman then by the doc’s logic they shouldn’t need the little blue pills at all. I think someone is totally missing something here.

I’m pretty sure it’s not me.

@Julie I can’t reply on my phone. No, I wasn’t replying to you. Your sarcasm came through loud and clear. I was taking about the original comment by the gyn. When she said “Women our age…”

Somebody had better tell this to my mom and her new fiancee!

Doc, I think there’s something wrong with your libido. You may want to seek help for that.

(Not that low sex drive is necessarily abnormal, different people have different levels of desire.)

Ok… the wording sounds like older female doc.

If so… “Overshare of *your* preferences, misrepresentation of mine. Now help me fix the problem.”

If an older male doc… “Did your wife tell you that? I’m so sorry. She does not speak for all of us.”

If a younger doc… “Before ‘we’ even get into how wrong you are… I think you misunderstand how the term ‘we’ works.”

So, explain why men AND women over age 60 are the fastest growing population of people with HIV and other STIs? (Many people in that age range don’t use condoms because they feel they are safely past the age of childbearing and don’t account for the possibility of getting infected. They are also the least likely to have the subject broached by their care providers or to bring it up themselves.)

Well if the GYN is 60 or older maybe they experienced the same problem and was told they could do nothing or maybe that GYNs sexual life died at 60. Who knows. But not every 60 year old is the same.

But this is kind of why old doctors are replaced. New medicine and treatments are invented everyday.

Low libido could be a very common post menopausal ailment, or so I hear.

“Look, doctor, just because you’re not fortunate enough to be married to a smoking hot love-beast doesn’t mean no woman is!”

You know, coming from a different angle, even if doc is right about women ‘of that age’ not wanting, in and of themselves, to have sex, that doesn’t mean they aren’t willingly availible when their spouse or partner wants to have sex. Some women really don’t enjoy sex (physically) but recognize it’s importance as a bonding and intimacy time in a healthy marriage. So even *if* this women (which I doubt is actually the case) just got don telling doc how she doesn’t like sex or find it physically appealing…the fact that it *hurts* to have sex, is still a valid complaint that needs to be adressed. Because (from someone who knows) there is a huge differences between being willing to be willing when your partner is, and ignoring pain to be so.

This is scary……because I thought painful intercourse can sometimes be a sign of more serious issues. Wouldn’t completely ignoring it be irresponsible? Even if it turns out to be hormone or age related, what if????