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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.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by esperto123 on Sunday June 23 2019, @07:54PM (6 children)
There is a big fail on articles about this subject, people always call these medicines "female viagra" but they are completely different. The male problem that viagra target is with erection, the man has the desire but cannot "get it up", the equivalent to that on a woman is vaginal dryness. These drugs target the desire, that, for all sorts of reasons, diminishes in women, specially as they get older. There is a good chemical to solve that, it is called testosterone, it would make most women dry hump random people at the subway, but has a lot of side effects like body hair growth, voice pitch change and others (i'm considering the dry humping a good side effect hahahha)
(Score: 4, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:08PM (4 children)
It's widely understood that drugs like Viagra work similarly with women, and I have firsthand experience in the matter. I don't know why the objective for female Viagra was to target the mood, because plain stock Viagra gets the ladies hot and juicy just fine.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:31PM (3 children)
That line, being posted by EF, makes me want to vomit, then join a monastery.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:39PM (2 children)
Don't worry, those ladies have dicks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @01:33AM (1 child)
That might be slightly worse.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Subsentient on Monday June 24 2019, @03:40AM
Or significantly better.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @06:00AM
I think the reason is because pills to treat ED aren't so much seen as being "ED pills," but rather as "anti-frustration" pills. Underlying this is that most men have higher testosterone and, therefore, higher libido, which means that their frustration comes from the fact that their equipment malfunctions. For most women with frustration, according to the research, they have functioning equipment (or cope using supplementary lubricant or other techniques) and want sex on a mental level, but the problem is flipping the switch from wanting it as a mental concept to being in the mood or ignoring anaphrodisiac thoughts once in the mood.