Brigid Schulte The Washington Post

Erica Palim trembled as she stood before a microphone at a packed hearing in June at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Gaithersburg, Md. For the first time, she was about to tell the world what it felt like to lose all desire to have sex. For years, she'd kept quiet, because the Georgetown-trained securities lawyer, mother of four and fixtur...

A group of about a dozen signed up for the -Unplug and Recharge in Nature- day organized by the Wilderness Awareness School on 40 acres of forested land just outside the high-tech corridor that is home to Microsoft, Amazon.com and a host of other high-tech companies.

Erica Palim trembled as she stood before a microphone at a packed hearing in June at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Gaithersburg, Md. For the first time, she was about to tell the world what it felt like to lose all desire to have sex. For years, she'd kept quiet, because the Georgetown-trained securities lawyer, mother of four and fixtur...

A group of about a dozen signed up for the -Unplug and Recharge in Nature- day organized by the Wilderness Awareness School on 40 acres of forested land just outside the high-tech corridor that is home to Microsoft, Amazon.com and a host of other high-tech companies.