'Female Viagra' may arrive by 2016

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A new pill, called Lybridos, may ramp up a woman’s ***ual desire while also improving ***ual satisfaction. Dutch and US firm Emotional Brain says the pill could be on sale within three years.

While Pfizer’s Viagra has been a global sensation, scientists have struggled to create a female version of the drug, because while Viagra has a physiological effect on men, increasing female desire requires both psychological and physical factors, reports say.

Lybridos contains testosterone to "increase ***ual motivation and physiological ***ual response, such as blood flow to the genitals and lubrication," the company says on its website. But unike Viagra, which focuses solely on achieving an erection, Lybridos targets areas of the brain related to ***ual desire.

Of course, libido is a complex issue, and a lack of desire could be linked to anything from boredom to a drop in hormones, such as related to menopause, experts say, and a pill to fix the problem (for women at least) has sparked a host of gender politicking in the media in the past week.

Writer Daniel Bergner, who first reported on the story in the New York Times magazine last week, writes that one of the biggest sources for flagging ***ual desire could be monogamy. A clinical disorder known as hypoactive ***ual-desire disorder, or a "lack of lust, when it creates emotional distress," affects anywhere from 10-30 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 60, according to the article.

The Telegraph in the UK writes that the results of a trial with Lybridos involving more than 200 women has not yet been published, and a larger trial is planned. So far, the company says the results have been "very, very promising."


jw/kc

Oh konting hintay na lang.

[Phoenix67]

Another date-rape pill in the making yan

[ghosthunter]

Until it actually arrives, its just vaporware...

[ghosthunter]

Another date-rape pill in the making yan

Maybe not... the drug might induce her to wet her proverbial panties but if she doesn't want to do it with you, she will will not be doing it with you.

Date rape drugs generally render the victim unconscious and sometimes also affect short term memory too.

[gearhead000]

Di na ba uso ang "korean bug"?

[lowslowbenz]

One does not need this to dial up a lady. IMHO.

[_Cathy_]

Is this god sent for those with gfs or wives with naturally low libido or have undergone menopause

[chua_riwap]

aiai doesn't need that.

[_Cathy_]

aiai doesn't need that.

Yeah women nearing menopause have very high libido, it's nature's last hurrah on the woman's fertility kasi. Then it all goes downhill...

[Retz]

para ba ito sa mga menopause na?