GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION This intermediate level course explores the facts and myths behind Female Sexual Dysfunction.  While some believe in this diagnostic label, others believe that the pharmaceutical industry, the medical establishment, and the media have pathologized female sexuality and function. Drawing upon scientific studies, clinical experience, and feminist philosophy, the course provides a critique of these ideas and offers an alternative, complex, socio-cultural framework for women's sexual concerns.  In addition, the course offers specific examples of the way clinicians can apply this socio-cultural framework to a diverse clientele with a wide range of sexual presenting problems.    Articles for this course were written by Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D., Marny Hall, Ph.D., Kathryn Hall, Ph.D., Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., Marilyn P. Safir, Ph.D., Anna Arroba, Ph.D., Sadhana Vohra, Ph.D., and "The Working Group on a New View of Women's Sexual Problems." The course starts with a survey of the changing landscape of women's sexual concerns and charts strategies to counter the one-size-fits-all medicalization of erotic dissatisfaction. The second and third articles focus on the role that the pharmaceutical industry has played in the medicalization of sexuality and discusses a specific campaign to counter this viewpoint.   The fourth article demonstrates ways in which both simplistic and complex views of women's sexuality shape clinicians' responses to the sexual concerns which women present in therapy. The next two articles describe the development of an alternative, complex, sociocultural framework for viewing women's concerns.  The following four articles offer brief cross-cultural perspectives on women's sexual concerns.  The final two articles demonstrate how clinicians can intervene effectively to resolve the sexual impasses of a wide variety of clients.