Althouse: Flibanserin is answerin' the prayers of everyone in a happy, sexless marriage.

September 22, 2015

Flibanserin is answerin' the prayers of everyone in a happy, sexless marriage.

30 comments:

Todd said...: That pill is not a female version of Viagra. I wish people would stop making that comparison. This is a drug designed to enhance a woman's libido, for treating sexual desire disorder. Viagra does nothing for a man's libido. It simply allows him to physically act on his existing libido. The equivalent of Viagra for a woman would be those drugs that enhance her natural internal lubrication when she becomes aroused.

This drug is a real version of the mythical "Spanish fly". There is no equivalent for a man, of Flibanserin.; 9/22/15, 1:07 PM
Beorn said...: @Todd

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect needed.; 9/22/15, 1:11 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "That pill is not a female version of Viagra. I wish people would stop making that comparison...."

Check out the video. It doesn't.; 9/22/15, 1:29 PM
lgv said...: Well, maybe it will lead to unhappy, sex filled marriage, only the sex isn't with her husband.; 9/22/15, 1:32 PM
Todd said...: Ann Althouse said...
"That pill is not a female version of Viagra. I wish people would stop making that comparison...."

Check out the video. It doesn't.

9/22/15, 1:29 PM

Really? Did you actually listen to it? The first news person calls it "female Viagra" at the 0:35 mark and it comes up (haha) again at 0:45 (might be more but I stopped watching at that point). Even the very caption on the video you hosted says "Female Viagra Is Coming".; 9/22/15, 1:43 PM
Jaq said...: Where did they find the women who weren't horny?; 9/22/15, 2:50 PM
kentuckyliz said...: Do you think hot old men with their blue pill induced petrified wood want to boink their drugged up sober old wives? Heh heh heh Nahhhh they want a hot young hoor.; 9/22/15, 2:54 PM
MayBee said...: The video says "Female Viagra" a million times. It's even on the still used in the blog post.; 9/22/15, 3:18 PM
MayBee said...: This company was smart to market itself as a feminist thing- comparing itself to Viagra.

In a parallel universe, feminists complain about this medication making women "Stepford Wives".; 9/22/15, 3:19 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: MayBee said...

In a parallel universe, feminists complain about this medication making women "Stepford Wives".

They say that like it's a bad thing.; 9/22/15, 3:24 PM
alan markus said...: How many 91 year old men that use Viagra hook up with pre-menopausal women?; 9/22/15, 3:43 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: If any of my girlfriends start taking this stuff I'm a gonner' Not enough Canadian Viagra in the world to keep up with that demand. Think I'll go into hiding.; 9/22/15, 4:09 PM
Humperdink said...: Never understand the attraction to watching Colbert. Or is it Colbere?; 9/22/15, 4:25 PM
Thuglawlibrarian said...: I agree, I don't get the attraction to colbert's humor. I also don't care for his knarled ear either. Yeah I know the story.; 9/22/15, 4:32 PM
Humperdink said...: "understood" (In case any grammar police are staying up past their, there, they're bedtime); 9/22/15, 4:37 PM
viator said...: Fliberanserin and Viagra collide, couple, cohabit, court, cuddle, copulate conspicuously.; 9/22/15, 4:46 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Colbert is mocking the drug, which barely does anything , in contrast ti Viagra, which does too much.; 9/22/15, 5:50 PM
Interesting,not crazy said...: Taken everyday, with danger of stroke or death. As opposed to a couple of glasses of wine or smoking marijuana. Sounds like a really fantastic product. BTW, turned down twice by FDA.; 9/22/15, 6:25 PM
sinz52 said...: Ann Althouse,

Flibanserin can indeed do something--but it's not an aphrodisiac, if that's what women are hoping for.

Flibanserin is a glorified antidepressant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norepinephrine%E2%80%93dopamine_disinhibitor

And yes, the more depressed you are, the less likely you are to enjoy sex--or anything else.

So the drug company is targeting mildly depressed women, who will find that as their mild depression improves, their libido will recover.; 9/22/15, 6:28 PM
sinz52 said...: alan markus asks: "How many 91 year old men that use Viagra hook up with pre-menopausal women?"

Donald Trump, if he lives that long.; 9/22/15, 6:29 PM
Bob Loblaw said...: This company was smart to market itself as a feminist thing- comparing itself to Viagra.

Yes, it was a brilliant move, because the FDA found the effect to be so subtle it's probably not even there. This way the manufacturer can sell a drug that doesn't work by getting gullible feminists to bully the FDA.

I guess I don't care very much if women want to pay a bunch of money for a placebo, but the fact that the FDA was willing to roll over is a bit unsettling.; 9/22/15, 6:37 PM
Browndog said...: Canadiens mock everything American....in American....after becoming American.; 9/22/15, 9:17 PM
Nichevo said...: Why not just give them what Suzy Favor Hamilton took?; 9/22/15, 10:17 PM
sane_voter said...: That was funny. I think that was the first time I laughed at a Colbert bit.; 9/22/15, 10:31 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Colbert is mocking the drug, which barely does anything...

Between a 50% and 100% increase in enjoyed sexual encounters per month is barely anything?; 9/23/15, 6:06 AM
alan markus said...: The baseline is 2 to 3 events a month - statistically the effective increase is .5 to 2 additional events a month. Not really that big a deal .; 9/23/15, 7:14 AM
Kyzer SoSay said...: Assuming that 0.5 is a blowjob equivalent, I'd say a lot of guys would welcome an additional random blowjob each month. They might even return the favor.; 9/23/15, 8:46 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/23/15, 9:14 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: alan markus said...

The baseline is 2 to 3 events a month - statistically the effective increase is .5 to 2 additional events a month. Not really that big a deal.

When thought of in those terms it does not sound like much. However, for the woman's partner who's not getting it as often as they would like, the more relevant way to think about it is how long do I have to go from when I want sex until when I can get sex. So this drug reduces the time between encounters from a range of 10-15 days to a range of 7.5-10 days. If the partner's desire is more like once every 3.5 days, then this reduces the couple's desire misalignment from a range of 6.5-11.5 down to 4-6.5. That works out to ~7.5-15 fewer days of sexual frustration per month for the woman's partner.

When viewed in those terms it is damn significant.; 9/23/15, 9:15 AM
SeanF said...: Ok, according to IgnoranceisBliss, the statistic was for an increase in "enjoyed sexual encounters" (emphasis mine). Doesn't sound like the man's necessarily getting sex more often, just that the woman is enjoying it more often.

And we all know how a real man tells if a woman had an orgasm, right?; 9/23/15, 1:21 PM