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'Women's Viagra' Targets Her ... Brain

Potential market huge for new drug that unleashes libido

By Emily Rauhala,  Newser User

Posted Nov 13, 2009 11:11 AM CST

(Newser) – Drug makers think sex is all in a woman's head—and they'll bet money on it. A German pharmaceutical company is putting the final touches on a pill designed to unleash a woman's desire by altering her brain chemistry. The pill, which the company says works by triggering the production of dopamine, has the potential to revolutionize sexual medicine as much as Viagra did. Still, some are wary of a drug essentially designed to block sexual inhibitions, and others hesitate to label disinterest in sex a medical condition.

The market for such a drug is potentially even bigger than the $2 billion spent annually on erectile dysfunction drugs, because more women than men report sexual problems. Boehringer, the world's largest privately held pharmaceutical firm, stumbled on the active compound in the new drug while searching for a depression treatment in the 1990s, Bloomberg reports. It didn't succeed in lifting subjects' moods, but it did enhance sexual appetite.



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Guest
Nov 30, 2009 4:30 AM CST
... triggering the production of dopamine... doesn't E release the dopamine you've built up... oh geez, I smell a new club mix coming...
Derni
Nov 15, 2009 1:24 AM CST
finally. some pleasureable ands exciting news-I'll take a case now
JayJay
Nov 14, 2009 8:49 AM CST
although, il admit, this sounds amazing... but its also very very bad... there is gunna be a great deal of addiction for this drug... not cause of the sex cause haha who's complaining, but because of the dopamine... most of the illegal drugs out there also increase dopamine... plus this could create a scenerio where girls can only get an organism with the drug, and without out, they wouldn't even get close... why not just make extasy without the whole dehydrating part...
 

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