Sex Drive. The answer to all your sexual questions.

Women's sexual desire in the western world at an all time low. Australia's most popular sexual anthropologist investigates in this provocative new book.

For many women an active sex life is on the bottom of their list. Recent studies tell us that despite the sexual revolution that was meant to liberate us, lack of libido is Western women's most common sexual problem. And, that once in aIs secure relationship, women's sex drive begins to plummet. This has led to an increasing number of women with "low libido" being diagnosed as "sexually dysfunctional." What has happened to their sexual desire? Is it a medical issue, a matter of competing priorities, or something more complex?

Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton has devoted years of research and interviewed women of all ages and backgrounds to find out why sex is not on top. She asks is "low libido" a construct? Or does it reflect contemporary urban life and its mind-body disconnect in which women don't want sex because they don't feel sexy?

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Book Reviews:

Ellwood-Clayton's Sex Drive is an intriguing and insightful journey across the female libido, challenging the accepted truths and answering those who seek to define and limit what is 'normal'. Armed with fascinating research, shrewd insights, intelligence and wit, Ellwood-Clayton provides a lucid account of the current thinking on female sexuality. Examining the history, the vested interests, and the science, Sex Drive is a book that debunks the myths that restrict women's sexualities and constrain our potential.

With honesty and compassion she explores the way that the media manipulates our desires, what becoming a mother really means for our sex life, the impact of anti-depressants on our libido, how our desires change as we age, as well as the problematic search for the 'pink Viagra'. Her call for women to reclaim their sexualities is as liberating as it is intelligent, offering a long-overdue critique of the vested interests that would wrest our desires from us.

- Monica Dux - writer and social commentator

Saturday Age, Life and Style - 03/03/2012

Courier Mail, Life - 03/03/2012

Sunday Star Times - 26/02/2012