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posted by martyb on Sunday June 23 2019, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the bundling-agreement-with-pfizer-in-3...2...1..... dept.

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the peptide bremelanotide (brandname 'Vyleesi'), a shot intended to enhance sexual desire in premenopausal women. Bremelanotide acts as an agonist for the melanocortin receptors which are believed to affect mood and desire.

This should not be confused with the previous poorly received attempt at a 'female viagra' flibanserin (brandname 'Addyi') which required taking a daily pill for up to four weeks to start seeing effects and had warnings about being taken in conjunction with alcohol. The bremelanotide shot does not restrict alcohol use and can be self administered by autoinjector as needed ~45 minutes before anticipated intimacy.

"There are women who, for no known reason, have reduced sexual desire that causes marked distress, and who can benefit from safe and effective pharmacologic treatment," Hylton Joffe, director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's Division of Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Products, said in a statement.

"Today's approval provides women with another treatment option for this condition. As part of the FDA's commitment to protect and advance the health of women, we'll continue to support the development of safe and effective treatments for female sexual dysfunction."

Side effects of the drug are mild and consist primarily of nausea in some women, with even that disappearing after a few doses.

Analysts have estimated potential sales of a drug that "safely and effectively treats loss of sexual desire in women" could amount to sales of about $1 billion annually.

The drug was developed by Palatin Technologies, with AMAG Pharmaceuticals holding exclusive North America sales rights. Both rose sharply Friday on the news.

Additional Coverage here

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 23 2019, @07:07PM (12 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday June 23 2019, @07:07PM (#859123) Journal

    If it's relatively safe, offer it over the counter. If it's not, don't add it to the Drug War.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @07:40PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @07:40PM (#859127)

    If it's relatively safe, offer it over the counter. If it's not, don't add it to the Drug War.

    Can we say the same about ED pills? Read the safety warnings about those little beauties ...

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:06PM (2 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:06PM (#859133) Homepage

      I have taken ED medicine, it's no joke. It decreases your hearing ability kinda like when you're flying on a plane at high altitude and everything sounds more quiet, and it causes wicked chest pains occasionally during sex. I was angry at my doctor for cutting off my prescription, as he began to suspect that I was abusing the medication, but looking back he did me a huge favor.

      Basically what those medicines do is drop the living fuck out of your blood pressure. So obviously your heart is a big deal, and when you've been drinking and are exerting yourself during sex there's a compound effect since alcohol is already a depressant. I'm pretty sure that I would have literally fucked myself dead had my doctor not cut me off. The "ants-in-your-pants" effects persist for around 24 hours. I never got priapism, though.

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:05PM (#859148)

        EF can't get it up anymore, haa haa!

      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday June 23 2019, @11:03PM

        by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday June 23 2019, @11:03PM (#859176)

        I'm pretty sure that I would have literally fucked myself dead had my doctor not cut me off.

        I need to have some words with that man. "He was kind of a jerk on the interwebs, but you can't beat going out the way he did." :-)

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:22PM (#859138)

      but you don't understand

      we have to offer a rape pill free of charge because it's no danger to men

      the only thing incels fear is women's independent sexuality

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:14PM (#859137)

    but date rape

    only an incel worries about personal liberties when the rapeocalypse is imminent

    i'm surprised that the legal weed has lasted as long as it has without being date raped, because if womanhood is anything but suffering, worst of all sexual, then feminists get all triggered

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:05PM (4 children)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:05PM (#859147)

    I guess not everyone's mind can see how this will be abused. That is actually a good thing.

    When people hear "stimulates a woman's libido" what they think is "Its an aphrodisiac". What I know is going to be a problem is guys who put this stuff in their girlfriend's or date's drink thinking it will improve their chances of getting laid. I just know we are going to start hearing about women being given this drug without their knowledge or consent. That is what I was commenting on.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:12PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:12PM (#859151) Journal

      Not everyone's mind cares about how it can be abused. We care about the larger abuses perpetrated by government.

      Bremelanotide is used as an injection, so you'd have to get pretty creative with that one.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @12:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @12:50AM (#859195)

        used as an injection, so you'd have to get pretty creative with that one.

        Only target diabetics?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Sunday June 23 2019, @11:05PM (1 child)

      by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday June 23 2019, @11:05PM (#859177)

      What I know is going to be a problem is guys who put this stuff in their girlfriend's or date's drink thinking it will improve their chances of getting laid.

      Considering the potential for abuse (even if it doesn't work that way), it would help if the standard formulation could be one that breaks apart or otherwise loses its properties in alcohol solution.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Monday June 24 2019, @04:38PM

        by JNCF (4317) on Monday June 24 2019, @04:38PM (#859397) Journal

        Sounds like it's an injection. Alcohol can be injected, but if your date offers a hypodermic needle of alcohol to get the night going I'd expect it to raise some red flags for other reasons.