GasBandit
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Female Viagra - Poon Boon or Sham Scam?
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The big question is what will happen if men use it.
Women have a reaction with Viagra, it encourages female erection through the same mechanism that encourages male erection, which can secondarily increase libido due to the perceived arousal.
The question is, how will this female pill affect the male brain?
--Patrick
Women have a reaction with Viagra, it encourages female erection through the same mechanism that encourages male erection, which can secondarily increase libido due to the perceived arousal.
The question is, how will this female pill affect the male brain?
--Patrick
Might be useful for people suffering from reruced sex drive but probably little else.
GasBandit
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Apparently, testing showed that people using the product only had one more "satisfying encounter" per month than people on the placebo.
Meanwhile, 1 in 5 have alarming side effects.
I think the bigger issue is going to be what happens if someone does come with a working version of this stuff... and it suddenly starts finding it's way into drinks at bars. *sigh*
Dave
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Drinking lowers the inhibitions. Note that I didn't say "drunk", just "alcohol". Much like viagra, this will be taken by people who don't actually have the problem. And the side effects are pretty terrible. So yeah, alcohol probably will work just as well for most if not all people. I think we're way too willing to prescribe things to people.
And besides, it was a joke. I do that. Occupational hazard. Not always funny, but almost always joking.
GasBandit
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I think the real difference is, Alcohol might lower a woman's inhibitions enough to have sex, but the point of the drug in question is to get her to actually enjoy the sex. However, it's all moot as it really sounds like snake oil, and with dangerous side effects at that.
GasBandit
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In case anyone wonders what he's talking about:
Parkinson's Drugs Linked to Sex and Gambling Addictions
--Patrick
I mean, basically this. You're basically saying that you should just get her to drink so you can have sex with her, without taking into account that just because you can get your dick in her doesn't mean that it's actually doing anything for her, inhibitions lowered or not. It's very frustrating to have a guys definition of sex being "Can I stick my dick in her? Then it's working!" Just, no.
I wonder if it'll be like those medicines that're supposed to, say, help with breathing but can cause shortness of breath.
"You can breathe better, but you'll have to do it more often!"
Or the ones that take the remedy too far, like constipation meds that can cause diarrhea. Wanted to go from 1 to 5, not get all Spinal Tap and turn it up to 11.
I have a friend who has zero sex drive thanks to her birth control (which she takes for hormonal reasons outside of just birth control). It's made her relationships pretty rocky because she literally just does it because the guy wants to and she says she gets nothing from it. A pill like this (or one with fewer side effects hopefully) that actually works would be a fantastic thing for her and people like her.
GasBandit
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Ironically hormonal birth control is one of the things you can't take while on this drug.
Then maybe they need to work harder.
GasBandit
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That's kind of the point. This product makes promises it cannot keep. It has little to no actual benefit while also having a high rate of harmful side effects. All of the tests and trials made the FDA decide not to approve it, but then the pharmaceutical company that made it trotted a whole bunch of crying housewives in front of a committee and let them tell their sob stories about how not being able to enjoy sex was ruining their marriages. I guess the fact that the drug doesn't actually work isn't of much concern.
See above picture for reference.
Big pharma pays big.
fade
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Reading articles on this is making me lose faith in humanity due to the comments. Both sides. One side is acting like the purpose of a woman is a basically a sex toy and now they can finally get it on. The other acting like any man who wants to have sex with his wife is a sex-crazed, wild-eyed monster, or that the only reason a man wants sex is for orgasm. Not that there aren't rational comments, but they're lost in the noise.
GasBandit
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Marketing. Money. Appeal to Emotion.
Wife recommends this article to the thread: https://medium.com/galleys/the-science-of-saving-your-sex-life-ed9cfeb4edd7
It goes over what's taught with women's sex drive versus what might actually be going on, in that physical stimulation can lead to the desire for sex. In other words, that to desire sex might first involve trying to see if you feel like it.
In short, I don't envy women in this, because it sounds annoying. But acknowledging can be helpful and my wife's attitude has essentially become that the medicine this topic is about is garbage.
It goes over what's taught with women's sex drive versus what might actually be going on, in that physical stimulation can lead to the desire for sex. In other words, that to desire sex might first involve trying to see if you feel like it.
In short, I don't envy women in this, because it sounds annoying. But acknowledging can be helpful and my wife's attitude has essentially become that the medicine this topic is about is garbage.