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NSFW - Would female Viagra cause society to crumble?

Asked by Seek (34805points) October 11th, 2013

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The company Emotional Brain has developed a libido enhancing drug for females, known as Lybrido.

The drug has passed stage-II clinical trial, and will likely be FDA approved in the next year. This is great news for many women who experience low sex drive due to medical conditions, prescription side effects, and biology, and wish to enhance their sex lives and/or become orgasmic again or for the first time.

Except there’s a clincher: done of the developers think having this drug on the market will cause women to become raging nymphomaniacs, scouring the countryside for all the wild oats they can stuff themselves with.

In the words of Andrew Goldstein, one of the gynecologists involved in the study;

You want your effects to be good but not too good. There was a lot of discussion about it by the experts in the room … the need to show that you’re not turning women into nymphomaniacs. There’s a bias against — a fear of creating the sexually aggressive woman.

The New York Times explained last May that Emotional Brain is “worried about the prospect that their study results would be too strong, that the FDA would reject an application out of concern that a chemical would lead to female excesses, crazed binges of infidelity, societal splintering.”

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