Last year that the Food and Drug Administration approved a libido pill for women named flibanserin and marketed as Addyi, but the drug has hardly made a meaningful impact on women’s sexual encounters.
If you haven’t yet heard of Addyi, the controversial new drug that’s supposed to boost female libido, you’re not alone. Unlike with Viagra, which sold like erections were a finite resource when it debuted in 1998, no one’s been rushing pharmacies to get their hands on the little pink pill. Since its release in…
Around 10 million women in the U.S. take some form of birth control pill, and with good reason: the Pill is one of the most effective birth control methods. But messing with your hormones can alter your sex life in positive and negative ways. Here’s what you need to know, as a pill-taker or as the partner of one.
Well this is hopeful, if annoying: flibanserin, a drug developed by Sprout Pharmaceuticals to treat women’s low libido, is aiming again this week for FDA approval. And, as we reported in the past, tsk-tsk-ers at the agency are worried about “risks outweighing the rewards.”
How many women get super turned on right before or during their period, contrary to all the logic they have ever been told their whole lives about when they should feel the most rarin' to go? It is hard to say, but it is enough that a Google search produces lots of women who've asked the same thing.
British regulators say Ubertan, a nasal spray that supposedly tans the skin, may be unsafe. Also, it might make you really horny. (Basically, it will turn you into The Situation.)
After so many years of blogging, teaching, mentoring, and writing, you find yourself getting the same questions over and over again. (Questions about the wisdom of age-disparate and long-distance relationships, for example, are evergreen.) But there are other topics that come up often as well, like incompatible sexual…
Today science tells us that if you like sex after the age of 26, it's probably because you're trying to fill your shriveled womb. Also, if you eat chocolate after a breakup, you're probably "addicted to love."
Camille Paglia doesn't think the female Viagra is going to rescue women's (supposedly) flagging libidos. She has another solution for America's sex problems: people of color.
Though many women report that birth control pills lower their sex drive, they've had frustratingly little scientific support — but now a new study shows women on hormonal birth control actually are at higher risk for low libido.
Low sex drive may be most common in menopausal women, but as an ABC article points out, younger women can experience it too — and they're often a lot more upset about it.
Today's no-shit study says infertility can do a number on a couple's sex life. Just like fertility!
A Florida company has created a brand of gum they say helps boost male libido. But before you reach for the magnums, Sexlets "don't claim to cure anything" and are available for the low, low price of $11.97. [UPI]
A study confirms what we suspected: being sans-job frees up plenty of time for sex. Unemployed women in their 20s have higher sexual appetites and are more likely to engage in risky behavior than those that are gainfully employed. [UPI]
According to a new study, some women may feel guilty about being physically aroused, inhibiting mental arousal and lowering libido. Just one more argument in favor of comprehensive, sex-positive sex ed. [Independent.ie]
More than ten years after Viagra came onto the scene (heh heh), drug companies are on the verge of offering a libido boosting patch to older women. Proctor & Gamble has been testing its Intrinsa testosterone patch for several years, Reuters reports, and according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine,…
Yesterday marked the official 10th birthday of Viagra, the little blue boner maker, and U.S. News and World Report has a trio of articles about potential Viagras for women. There are currently two lady libido drugs in the midst of clinical trials — one is a testosterone gel, and the other is a pill that acts on…
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the wind beneath my wings, Rich, and I dole out advice on stuff like low libidos, virgin friends, and how everyone is probably gay.…
