Female Antidote to The Man Gene?

In a post earlier this week, I suggested that a new study on fish and polluted water might be useful to employers in dealing with all kinds of legal problems caused by The Man Gene that inhabits male employees. This might be viewed as The Man Gene’s antidote, but the New York Times, in an extensive article, points to a more potent antidote.

The Times article is about another study, one dealing with why 30% of young and middle-aged women go through extended periods of time despairing of low, or no, sexual desire, called hypoactive sexual desire disorder or H.S.D.D. According to those who research this disorder, it can be as bad for women as The Man Gene is for men — just in the opposite way.

While psychiatrists and sex therapists search for H.S.D.D.’s cure, the employment lawyer in me wonders if this is such a good idea. It seems to me that the legal, physical, mental and sometimes criminal harm caused by the usually out-of-control Man Gene is mercifully thwarted by H.S.D.D. A complete turnaround for the 30% of women having the disorder could create workplaces throbbing with so much sexual desire that employers would need a new kind of security force just to get through the day.

The H.S.D.D. study further demonstrates the wide sexual chasm between men and women. As noted in previous posts on The Man Gene, I’m inclined to believe that the chasm has existed since the beginning of time and, if so, isn’t likely to be narrowed any time soon. The feminization of fish by polluted water, new H.S.D.D. research, or any of the other possible remedies I’ve suggested in my posts are doomed to failure.

Are employers, therefore, required to comply with an employment law that contravenes the laws of nature? A new defense for employers? Not a chance.