Yes! I am friends with many transwomen who have experienced a decrease in sexual desire! Their experience parallels women who are in perimenopause (or - have had their ovaries surgically removed *ovaries make testosterone*) or have thyroid issues... what have you.

I agree. There’s an interesting pattern of drug companies essentially turning diseases into a brand in order to create a market for drugs. http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/10/…

Haha the female vagina is totally worth it.

When I scrolled past this I thought it said “Is the Female Vagina Worth It?” and was like, damn that’s some pessimistic shit.

i don’t understand why every ‘cure’ pitched at women is a form of antidepressant.

“we didn’t have the foresight to require only women,” their spokesperson said. And no, this wasn’t from deep in flibanserin’s history as a unisex drug; the FDA requested the study when they rejected flibanserin as a women’s libido pill in 2010.

> it seems like an awful lot of “maybe this will work” combined with an awful lot of “this will probably harm you”.

This line caught my eye: “unfairly positioning normal sexuality as a disease to create demand for its pills.”

Exactly. 30 pills a month for 1-2 times more sexual encounters per month = not worth it. Also the no-alcohol rule makes this pretty much a non-starter for me.

Actually, the female viagra is called: Viagra. It increases blood flow where it’s supposed to, but that doesn’t make a real difference in how much women want to have sex—and yes, the drug makers tested this back when viagra was new.

“You could have someone who is the acknowledged best at oral sex, and if the other person isn’t in the mood and can’t get in the mood, it won’t work.”

I kinda think that there should be extra-stringent efficacy requirements for drugs that are on their 3rd, 4th, 5th attempts at getting approval for wildly different conditions. Is any drug company actually going to take a denial on something they have spent many years and billions of dollars developing? NOPE. They…

Was the writer paid for not saying this is insane? The drug didn’t work as an anti-depressant. So they make up this add campaign and story. And the writer is buying this? Less than half the people taking this reported it worked, not many more than the placebo group. As soon as I read that this was a Valeant product…

I wonder what the libido studies among same-sex oriented women would show?

My biggest problem with this stuff is calling it “female viagra”. Viagra addresses a physiological problem simply related to blood flow to the area. It has nothing to do with libido (which is a much MUCH more complex issue) ... the truth is that we’ve had “female viagra” for ages, its called KY Jelly (which solves the…

I’m curious, if it was originally intended as an antidepressant, and since it takes weeks/months before it’s effective, is it then necessary to wean off of it should you decide to stop taking it? And is that taken into account with the current coupon scheme? If someone took it for 7 months with the coupons, and…

It doesn’t matter how good you are with your tongue; some people just don’t have a sexual response at a level that they’re happy with. You could have someone who is the acknowledged best at oral sex, and if the other person isn’t in the mood and can’t get in the mood, it won’t work.

Tl;dr: No

sounds like a bullshit drug to me with poor testing and even poorer results. Every woman with libido issues should read Come As You Are for some context and insight on sex drive vs. desire. That book taught me more about my dead bedroom than my doctor ever did.

Yeah, lots of issues with this drug. It just seems like the number of women it can actually help is very small. When I first read about it and read that it couldn’t be used for women who experience low libido because of anti-depressants (or other psychiatric meds), I remember wondering, well what’s the point then?…