Posted on 08/13/2007 6:35:56 PM PDT by shrinkermd
The market for products to treat sexual dysfunction is almost exclusively a male club. While men have a variety of choices — including Viagra, Cialis and Levitra — women don’t have a specific pharmaceutical product for female sexual dysfunction, or FSD.
That’s partly because it’s hard to measure FSD, experts say. Sexual dysfunction in men is easy to gauge from a physical standpoint.
And in women?
“We’re looking for an increased number of sexually satisfying events,” said Amy Stevens, a medical doctor and analyst with Susquehanna Financial Group....
...The standard treatment for female sexual dysfunction has long been testosterone. Commonly considered a male hormone, testosterone is also made by a woman’s ovaries.
Two companies are promoting female-specific testosterone: Procter & Gamble PG and BioSante Pharmaceuticals
(Excerpt) Read more at epaper.investors.com ...
The basic study documenting the prevalence of the problem can be found here on Medscape.A summary is as follows:
"...Female Orgasmic Disorder (302.73, DSM-IV) (formerly known "inhibited female orgasm") is characterized by the persistent or recurrent, delay in, or absence of, orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase. To be considered a significant condition, this should cause distress for the patient, and not be caused by another medical condition or use of drugs (such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors). Because women experience different variability in the type and intensity of stimulation that triggers orgasm, the diagnosis should be based on what would be reasonable for their age, sexual experience, and the adequacy of sexual stimulation.
Many women with orgasmic disorders have experienced this problem their entire lives. New-onset problems should make the clinician probe for new medical issues (neurologic signs or recent initiation of antidepressant therapy), or new psychosocial stressors, such as relationship issues, abuse, and depression.
In the National Health and Social Life Survey, 1,749 women ages 18 to 59 were surveyed about their sexual function (Laumann, Paik, & Rosen, 1999). Persistent or recurrent inability to achieve orgasm over the last year was reported in 25%. Unmarried women and those without a college degree were more likely to have problems with orgasm (Laumann et al., 1999). Recent studies report a lifetime incidence of total or partial orgasm difficulties of between 16% to 30% (Paik & Laumann, 2006). Approximately 5% of women have never achieved an orgasm (Klassen & Wilsnack, 1986).
I got five dollars says this thread gets pulled.
Come on....its safe to post.
Can’t we work on CANCER first?
Foreplay might help.
Decreased blood flow to one's private parts would interfere with sexual expression, regardless of your gender.
It’s a damn good thing we have machines or else no real work would ever get done.
My vote would be booze and lots of it.
Yeaaah, they endup dummycRATs, hating everything and uglyyyyy!
Hide the wedding cake.
Viva Viagra *ping*...
Interesting that variances between individuals that are probably quite natural are now being classified as “dysfunction.”
Foreplay might help.
Battery powered mechanical devices.
In the world of politics you would call it "straw polling."
The Cialis effects were first seen in women and it has a very positive affect.
hulkster
It’s the blood flow to the brain that’s the problem in most cases of frigidity.
LOL. Well this might get the thread pulled!
My guess is nothing would help Hillary.
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