viagra for women

Today, pharmacists are promising women to encapsulate sexual desire in a pill shell. But is it possible, and is female Viagra necessary in principle?

How simple it would be: at any chosen moment, put a pill under the tongue and wait for a pleasant wave to spread through the body! But if men are more often faced with the inability to complete sexual contact, then for women the problem is more often the very absence of desire as such. Surveys show that approximately 30% of women experience little or no sexual arousal*. Based on them in the United States, the Librido drug was created, which they promise to put on sale as early as 2016. The results of the first trials are encouraging: women who took it did notice that their sexual tone improved. Does this mean that we are on the verge of a new sexual revolution?

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Attempts to invent “female Viagra” have been made before. But most of the drugs were created on the basis of the key component of the same Viagra – sildenafil. It dilates blood vessels and provides blood flow to the penis. Due to this, men have an erection. But this method turns out to be powerless if there is no most important thing – the desire to have sex.

Librido works differently. It stimulates the production of the hormone testosterone, which affects the pleasure centers in the brain, increasing sexual desire as well as dulling the feeling of discomfort. In other words, it affects the very source of desire – our brain. Gynecologist Odile Buisson** is optimistic: “If clinical trials of Librido prove that the drug is safe and if it is administered correctly, I think many women will benefit from it. For example, patients come to me who sincerely love their partner, but suffer from insufficient or no desire for him at all.

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But how to determine where love turns into desire? Here lies the main difficulty. After all, the nature of a woman’s sexual desire is closely related to her feelings for a partner and the general emotional background. “Librido” does not take this connection into account. “You need to understand that all the means that are designed to stimulate libido act only at the level of physiology,” comments sexologist Yevgeny Kashchenko. – The very mechanism of the origin of desire is very complex. It cannot be completely reduced to chemical formulas. Sexual problems in both women and men are often associated with psychological difficulties. After all, sex life is based on emotions. Even if the miracle pill can provide all women with stable sexual activity, the long-term consequences may be unpredictable, our experts say. The body can generally “unlearn” how to produce the hormone naturally and become dependent on the drug. And relationships built on artificially heated attraction are unlikely to be durable.

* Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, 2008, vol. 63.

** Author of Who’s Afraid of the G Spot? (“Qui a peur du point G?”, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2011).