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Products To Treat Sexual Dysfunction Find New Market (Women)
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 13 August 2007 | BY PETER BENESH

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: orgasm; testosterone; women
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To: shrinkermd

Interesting.


21 posted on 08/13/2007 7:54:29 PM PDT by Poundstone
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To: gathersnomoss

Does the medication work on a bad attitude?


22 posted on 08/13/2007 8:13:44 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: Rudder
It’s the blood flow to the brain that’s the problem in most cases of frigidity.

Would you say that's true for both men and women?

23 posted on 08/13/2007 8:14:47 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: RatRipper

Does the medication work on a bad attitude? LOL

If not, try a hammer.

Still LOL


24 posted on 08/13/2007 8:23:20 PM PDT by rineaux (the powers that be are laughing at us)
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To: Tamar1973

One is the reverse of the other, that is in many species the male needs no brain at all.


25 posted on 08/13/2007 8:51:43 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: Rudder

And I always thought it really was a headache!


26 posted on 08/14/2007 12:19:41 AM PDT by Sarajevo
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