Dr. Sally Greenwald likes to say that she is the happiest gynecologist in America. She is certainly sought after, having attracted a following of high-powered Silicon Valley women of a certain age with her motto, “Sexual health is health.” Like the dozens of biohacking doctors who treat the area’s billionaire tech bros, Greenwald is focussed on optimization and innovation—“perseveration on perfection,” she calls it. But Greenwald wants to achieve this goal, in part, through orgasms. Read about the concierge gynecology practice that views women’s sexual health as a way to well-being and, ultimately, to longevity:
“The argument is not: sex equals longevity,” Greenwald said. “It is: sex equals sleep, stress reduction, cardiovascular engagement, relational fulfillment, and pelvic-floor health, and each of those equals health.” She likes to note, however, that sixty years after the so-called sexual revolution, the sex lives of straight women are hardly thriving. Whereas straight men climax in almost all sexual encounters, heterosexual women in relationships fail to climax a third of the time. The widespread assumption has always been that the female orgasm is innately tricky, but data show that lesbians climax almost as often as men do.
A number of Greenwald’s patients told me that they’d never had a gynecologist who thought of sexual satisfaction as a medical issue. But she considers sex coaching to be a part of her job, just as an internist might advise a patient with high blood pressure to get more exercise.
Read the full story: The Billionaires’ Vagina Club. With her motto, “Sexual health is health,” Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley., The New Yorker
