FDA Nixes "Female Viagra" Flibanserin

(CBS)  Women say they already knew that drugs aren't' the answer - although they agree there is a problem. It's not with them -it's with men, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

The FDA advisory panel voted 10 to one that flibanserin was not significantly better than a placebo, and unanimously that the benefits did not outweigh side effects like dizziness, nausea and fatigue.

"Not convinced of the clinical meaningful benefit of flibanserin," said Paula Hillard, gynecologist from Stanford University School of Medicine.

But many experts question whether any pill designed to treat a woman's lack of sexual desire is a medical necessity, or simply a marketing scheme.

"Women don't need treatments with real side effects for imaginary diseases designed by a marketer," said Elena Yanchar, a graduate student at Georgetown Medical Center.

Even before the vote today, the maker of flibanserin had started a web promotion - and caught heat for it.

"Thinly veiled marketing campaign filled with bias, misinformation and celebrity endorsement," said Thea Cacchioni of the University of British Columbia.

With almost $2 billion a year in sales, male sexual dysfunction drugs are big business - so the drug companies are eager to please women, too. Viagra and drugs like it fix the physical problem of blood flow, but flibanserin is an antidepressant to treat vague symptoms by targeting the brain.

"I think it's a scam," said Leonore Tiefer with the NYU School of Medicine.

But one woman who said she benefited from the drug and wanted to remain anonymous, told CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, that struggles with desire are very real and can make a woman feel like there is something wrong with her.

Drug companies have tried more than two dozen times to come up with a treatment to reawaken a woman's sex life. But for many women, the idea of popping a pill just isn't that sexy.

[wwwbluekamagracom]

We do selling this type of products and many times mens are purchasing the same for their loved once. I also appreciate the comment from "toldyouso21" as it is the fact in India...

[Emma4242]

Female Viagra - http://www.provestra.com/ct/99781 I received the order and it was on time and the pills work great.

[tjh14]

Some women are much more easily aroused than others. Some women loved what I did for them, and others were just lukewarm. You can't please everyone, so I simply hooked up with one of the ones who was appreciative.
Trying to fix other people is a waste of time. They are either responsive or they are not.
Who cares if women blame men for their failures? They just isolate themselves further with thinking like that.

[gearhead1000]

What is this crap? So let me get this straight - anytime a woman has a low libido it is because of men? What the F....? This has to be the most worthless piece of quasi-feminist crap I have ever read.

I have no doubt that this drug sounds worthless but the FACT is that their are women out their WHO DO have a lack of sexual desire due to medical conditions and to blame this on men and to imply that women are HELPLESS WITHOUT THE HELP OF MEN to take their own sexuality under control is in fact about as MISOGYNISTIC AS IT GETS!!!!

[toldyouso21]

LOL. Men do not want to hear this--but often when the only sex on hand is LOUSY sex from inept, undesireable partners...over time a woman's libido disappears.

A woman's worse nightmare: To have a high libido and have an inept partner as her only recourse.

Imagine a woman taking this pill and having a husband who is a lousy fvck....LMAO (and you men KNOW a lot of you are L___O___U___S___Y!!!

[tmittelstaed]

"...only about 20 of 100 men in any group are really great lovers, and of the 80 remaining, only about 30 more are adequate (meaning they please most of the time) of the remaining 50, at least 30 will be hopeless and they are self centered enough to think if they can get off, then the woman must have also been satisfied in the process...." -toldyouso21

Gee toldyouso21, you really seem to have a chip on your shoulder against men. What is your problem, did your husband ditch you for someone with a bit more heart? Or are you just a frustrated lesbo?

This FDA ruling isn't about women who DON'T want to take flibanserin and who are perfectly happy putting all the blame for their sexual dysfunction on their male partners. It's not about people like YOU.

This is about the women who WANT to get ***** and enjoy sex, and have TRIED all the other stuff, setting aside time, massages, cuddling, wine, etc. - and none of that worked, and who's mates have TRIED all the self-help books and everything else and it still isn't happening for her.

What would YOU say to the 30's couple who have dropped a couple thousand bucks on sessions with a sex therapist and the wife STILL isn't enjoying it?

My guess is you would tell the wife that she's perfectly normal and to just give it up, she's never going to like sex and that's perfectly OK.

The only problem is, that's only perfectly OK in YOUR world. It's NOT perfectly OK in HER world.

You probably think your some great feminist, standing up for women's rights and all of that. But in reality your as narrow-minded as an ultraconservative RepubliCON - actually more so, since at least the ultraconservative RepubliCON is willing to have gay sex in airport restrooms. Your only difference from these men who are pushing their view of sex on women, who you seem to hate so much, is that your a women pushing your view on other women. Otherwise your absolutely no different.

You talk about many women growing up pretending to like sex. Well, missy, you obviously haven't ever been in a hospital nursery with a lot of girl babies, or worked at a daycare center with young girls. That's because if you ever were, you would see that just about all of those those girl babies and girl kids are putting their hands on their ******* and rubbing them dozens of times a day. At that age, for both girl and boy babies, their favorite place for their hand is between their crotch. Why? Because IT FEELS GOOD. DUH!!!!!!

Women who grow up thinking that they don't "like sex" are thinking that because their parents programmed that into them when they were young. Their parents, probably fundamentalist Cristians, pounded it down deep into their brains that sex is bad, and it's so far down there that when they grow up they don't even realize it. That's part of US culture, and the strength of the women's movement is that so many women have realized that there's nothing bad about sex and in fact there's a lot of good about it, and don't have the crappy attitude about it that you do. It's those enlightened women who are interested in flibanserin as an aid in getting those fundamentalist Christian anti-sex daemons out of their subconscious, not knuckle-dragging cavewomen like you, stuck back in 1950 attitudes. The FDA just punched them down hard, and reiterated the myth that women's sexual happiness is due to men!!!

[toldyouso21]

LOL. I have no problem with men--but the fact is--a lot of men do not know what they are doing and the inexperience of a lot of women means they can't tell them what to do either. When I was in college and as a grown up for some reason, a lot of women and young girls tended to gravitate toward me and talk to me. Most of our talk centered around sex and women often admitted to not being able to orgasm and to having little to no interest in sex.

People do not like stuff like this said. But it is true. Many women with low libidos are actually sexually unwakened females and many men do not have a clue. When a woman knows she can enlighten her partner--when she does not--she may blame herself --but often it is incuriousness and awkwardness on the man's part and ignorance on the woman's part.

Obviously the amount of women having or wanting sex is low or there would not be an attempt to make a drug to fix it. I offer up some of the reasons why and you bash it because you are probably one of those men or perhaps--one of "those" women.

it does not change the facts. LOL

[toldyouso21]

LOl. I tell it like it is. you don't want to hear it because man or woman you probably are another -- really lousy lay.

[dronemonk]

Western sexuality is broken. Our values are askew, and we can't help but declare how "right" we are. We're wrong, we need to adopt better values, not better sexytime drugs.

[magnumdr]

The people in the USA better learn to stop thinking with their dipsticks. There is more to life than sex!

[myopinionpal]

A man and women both on viagra a heart attack in the making.

[toldyouso21]

With that being said, maybe if they would make more of an effort, scheudle some intimate time and at least sympathize with the fact that their male spouse more than likely guages a happy marriage on frequency of intimacy, not so much quality, then maybe they would find they enjoy it again eventually."

In other words for the sake of men, women should just lie back and grin and bear it and find some of sort of zen in the 'bearing"

Try this exercise: Make a loose fist of your hand then have another person come over and repeatedly poke a finger in and out as fast or slow as they can--now..imagine having to do that for about 10 years as much as the finger poker wants to.

Here are some facts for you: Not all women get off or are satisfied with oral sex.

2. As men age, viagra does less and less for them

3. Not all men know what to do with their ***** and think that just poking it in and out is good sex (good for them but not for the woman)

4. the reason that it is called "scr3wing is that to do it properly both parties must do a lot of twisting and turning in rythymn so that the man's ***** rubs against the gspots within the woman's vagina thereby stimulating her.

only about 20 of 100 men in any group are really great lovers, and of the 80 remaining, only about 30 more are adequate (meaning they please most of the time) of the remaining 50, at least 30 will be hopeless and they are self centered enough to think if they can get off, then the woman must have also been satisfied in the process.

if you cannot or will not rub those internal spots there will be no vaginal orgasssssm and if a woman is too sensitive or clitoral stim is not her kink==then that is an unsatisfied woman.

Get unsatisfied long enough and the woman would rather not be bothered. CAtch a clue, men.

[toldyouso21]

"FDA Nixes "Female Viagra" Flibanserin
Experts Question if Pill Designed to Fight Lack of Sexual Desire is Medical Necessity or Marketing Scheme"

Is viagra designed for a medical necessity or marketing scheme?