Heartache: ‘Female Viagra’ Fails

Posted on | June 16, 2010 | 23 Comments

The drug didn’t boost women’s desire any more than a placebo in two clinical trials. . . [t]he FDA staff who reviewed the results said the so-called response rate isn’t “particularly compelling.”
In a statement posted on the FDA website, manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim maintains that flibanserin really works, while acknowledging it’s better at increasing a woman’s “global desire” than “the intensity of [her] acute episodes of desire.” That phrasing suggests the drug’s effects are, well, rather subtle.
Trouble is, flibanserin has side effects that may outweigh its tepid benefits. About 15 percent of flibanserin users in the experimental trial stopped taking the drug because of bad reactions like dizziness, nausea, anxiety and insomnia.

This means guys trying to stimulate women’s sexual desire will have to resort to old-fashioned remedies like moonlight, music, wine and diamonds.

Meanwhile, in other scientific breakthrough news, researchers have found that being fat is bad for your sex life. Being old, poor and ugly is also bad for your sex life. But we don’t need scientific research to tell us this.

Category: Science, Sex

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23 Responses to “Heartache: ‘Female Viagra’ Fails”

ck
June 17th, 2010 @ 1:15 am

90% of men like sex, 30% of women like sex. There will always be problems.
ck
June 16th, 2010 @ 9:15 pm

90% of men like sex, 30% of women like sex. There will always be problems.
Brian O'Connor
June 17th, 2010 @ 1:23 am

90% of men like sex, 30% of women like sex. There will always be problems.

at least for 60% of the men.
Brian O'Connor
June 16th, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

90% of men like sex, 30% of women like sex. There will always be problems.

at least for 60% of the men.
JeffS
June 17th, 2010 @ 2:08 am

All this so-called research is rendered worthless by a t-shirt I saw long long ago:

“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
JeffS
June 16th, 2010 @ 10:08 pm

All this so-called research is rendered worthless by a t-shirt I saw long long ago:

“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
KYI
June 17th, 2010 @ 3:01 am

KY Intense can be very helpful. But don’t trust me. Run double blind trials at home.
KYI
June 16th, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

KY Intense can be very helpful. But don’t trust me. Run double blind trials at home.
Jeff Weimer
June 17th, 2010 @ 3:35 am

Being old, poor and ugly is also bad for your sex life. But we don’t need scientific research to tell us this.

Speaking from experience, Stacy?
Jeff Weimer
June 16th, 2010 @ 11:35 pm

Being old, poor and ugly is also bad for your sex life. But we don’t need scientific research to tell us this.

Speaking from experience, Stacy?
Joe
June 17th, 2010 @ 4:10 am

wine and dinner works.
Joe
June 17th, 2010 @ 12:10 am

wine and dinner works.
Roxeanne de Luca
June 17th, 2010 @ 4:39 am

This means guys trying to stimulate women’s sexual desire will have to resort to old-fashioned remedies like moonlight, music, wine and diamonds.

Thank you, Stacy, for injecting some basic common sense into this.

I’m not being sarcastic; this drug seems to be designed to increase desire, not pleasure. Desire is a very emotional thing for women, and, pardon my irrepressible romantic streak, is as it should be – men who want sex have to go outside their comfort zones, work with their own emotions and women’s emotions, and then gently move women out of their comfort zones.

It also seems perverse to drug women into having an appetite without ensuring that their desire can be satisfied. What’s the goal here? Inflicting women with the female equivalent of blue balls?
Roxeanne de Luca
June 17th, 2010 @ 12:39 am

This means guys trying to stimulate women’s sexual desire will have to resort to old-fashioned remedies like moonlight, music, wine and diamonds.

Thank you, Stacy, for injecting some basic common sense into this.

I’m not being sarcastic; this drug seems to be designed to increase desire, not pleasure. Desire is a very emotional thing for women, and, pardon my irrepressible romantic streak, is as it should be – men who want sex have to go outside their comfort zones, work with their own emotions and women’s emotions, and then gently move women out of their comfort zones.

It also seems perverse to drug women into having an appetite without ensuring that their desire can be satisfied. What’s the goal here? Inflicting women with the female equivalent of blue balls?
Bob Belvedere
June 17th, 2010 @ 11:27 am

What’s the goal here? Inflicting women with the female equivalent of blue balls?

Yup. It’s all part of the Feminazi’s goal of convincing everyone to pretend that women and men are EXACTLY the same.
Bob Belvedere
June 17th, 2010 @ 7:27 am

What’s the goal here? Inflicting women with the female equivalent of blue balls?

Yup. It’s all part of the Feminazi’s goal of convincing everyone to pretend that women and men are EXACTLY the same.
Joe
June 17th, 2010 @ 11:41 am

Yup. It’s all part of the Feminazi’s goal of convincing everyone to pretend that women and men are EXACTLY the same

The more noxious part of this is the feminization of boys.
Joe
June 17th, 2010 @ 7:41 am

Yup. It’s all part of the Feminazi’s goal of convincing everyone to pretend that women and men are EXACTLY the same

The more noxious part of this is the feminization of boys.
Bob Belvedere
June 17th, 2010 @ 3:44 pm

Absolutely, Joe!
Bob Belvedere
June 17th, 2010 @ 11:44 am

Absolutely, Joe!
Blake
June 17th, 2010 @ 4:48 pm

I’ve found that having a good paying full time job really helps when it comes to attracting the opposite sex.

I don’t care how much of a feminist a woman claims she is, nothing says “I love you” quite like gainful employment.
Blake
June 17th, 2010 @ 12:48 pm

I’ve found that having a good paying full time job really helps when it comes to attracting the opposite sex.

I don’t care how much of a feminist a woman claims she is, nothing says “I love you” quite like gainful employment.