Female Viagra, anybody?
If it were up to me, this alleged miracle drug would have a sexy name. Volcano Minx. Sex Ballad. Midnight Tigress.
And yet, here we are, with a sexual dysfunction drug for women called ‘Flibanserin’ on its way to being approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the Unites States.
Basically, if this little pink pill proceeds to the next round of bureaucratic thumbs up, it could be available as soon as the 18th of August.
Sounds great, right? The first pill for struggling lady-libidos! Finally, pharmaceutical companies pay attention to female sexuality! A teeny, tiny, pea-sized feminist triumph! Let’s all get some! First round’s on me! Everyone gets to be Samantha Jones!
No, no, no. Sadly, no. Cool your vulvas for a moment, girls.
Hold off on baking those celebratory nipple cupcakes. This drug actually isn’t really like Viagra at all. A little like the human psyche or society’s general nonchalance towards the clitoris, it’s more complex and more frustrating.
Viagra for men is fast and easy.
It’s a chemical solution for a physical problem. When a man struggles to rise to the sexy occasion, he can pop a little blue pill that stimulates blood flow to his penis, and off he goes.
Currently, by the way, dudes can choose from 26 Viagra-like drugs to treat erectile dysfunction. Like any medication, they have serious potential side effects, including blindness and a rather dramatic sounding event called ‘penil rupture’. But dudes got options. Their sexual dysfunction needs have been well and truly met by the pharmaceutical industry.