Posted on 02/09/2005 8:42:47 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
IMPROVED sexual satisfaction for women may be just a spray on the skin away, Australian clinical trials have shown.
The testosterone spray, developed by Monash University in Melbourne, was shown to significantly improve younger women's sexual enjoyment and satisfaction. The spray was tested on 261 premenopausal women aged 35-45 across Australia who had a low libido and testosterone levels.
Each woman kept a diary throughout the 16-week study, in which they were also given dummy doses, to record all sexual events along with the level of satisfaction.
Initial results show that women who used the spray recorded, on average, two more satisfactory sexual experiences a month than before taking the hormone.
Principal investigator Susan Davis said previous research had focused on postmenopausal women, who were known to have low testosterone levels.
"But many younger women also report having low sexual interest and enjoyment, and traditionally this has been explained away as being caused by relationship issues, depression or other life circumstances," she said.
"But now we know for many women the underlying problem is biological."
Sexual dysfunction issues traditionally were taken more seriously in men than women, Professor Davis said.
"I think its been more socially acceptable in the past for men to be able to complain of having low sexual function," she said.
"I think a lot of women have been scared to say 'I have a problem' in case even their doctor thinks they're sort of promiscuous or there is something wrong with them."
Kerran (who did not given her surname), 44, a working mother with three children said she had experienced a noticeable improvement in her sex life and overall wellbeing since using the drug.
"At first with the treatment nothing happened," she said.
"I didn't feel any different ... and then after a couple of months I started to feel really good in all areas."
Low testosterone levels, which occur in about 30 per cent of women aged 20-40, is a major factor in a lack of sexual drive.
The study was part of the approval process for the US Food and Drug Administration.
The process will next involve a larger study over a longer period of time, with the product expected to be on the market within "several" years.
The only noticeable side effect had been a small increase in body hair, Professor Davis said.
Just regard it as Australia's gift to the world...
Some of this stuff, and a vibrator for the womens, and us men might as well move off planet.
And if it causes them to look like a monkey, I'm on the ship.
Hey, we conservatives are supposed to be optimists!
What is it made out of?
Does this help women with old age hormone problems?
?.....$$$$$$$.....cost?
?Side effects + - + - ?
Is it 'legal'.....here?
Answers.......?
All in time. It's still being tested.
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