Are We a Step Closer to a Viagra for Women?

[Elmore Furth]

Well, if they can improve rabbit love, it's probably ok for humans.

Researchers may be one step closer to a Viagra for women, given the results of a British study released Tuesday.

Sexual side-effects of antidepressants may improve with Viagra use.Attempts to treat female sexual dysfunction with Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug Viagra have for the most part failed, but a new prototype from the company offers hope for a female-specific treatment for those with female sexual arousal disorder, FSAD.

The drug, which the researchers tested on rabbits, acts by increasing blood flow specifically to the genitalia, enhancing and extending the duration of arousal.

The drug would not help all types of female sexual arousal disorder, however, as blood flow is only one of many reasons that women experience sexual dysfunction.




Are We a Step Closer to a Viagra for Women?

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[ejpoeta]

2. don't tell this to the religious nutjobs. they think women aren't supposed to get anything out of

sex except babies.

[madrchsod]

3. vitamin B5 does the same thing....

and it`s cheaper.

[TZ]

4. Vitamins aren't cure alls. Ugh.

Why do people in a SCIENCE forum not understand the basics of biology?! :banghead:

[Demeter]

5. Because It Isn't About Medicine or Biology--It's About Profits

and as one of the targetted consumers, I am sick of being a guinea pig for Big Pharma, of seeing my sisters drop dead of useless, harmful, or misapplied hormonal treatments, and about the sexualization of everything.

Seems to me a woman "disinterested" because of diabetes had better work on the diabetes first.