Female Desire

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On October 21, 2004, I turned into NBC Today at around 7:30 AM and watched a program entitled “Lustful men are little devils, but women are often tramps”, which discussed the idea that our society still is not comfortable with the idea of female desire.
The program was presented by Brian Alexander, who is a California-based writer who covers sex, relationships and health for NBC today. He does this along with his duties as a contributing editor at Glamour, one of the nation’s leading fashion magazines.
In the program, viewers were informed that for a few years now, some women have been using testosterone gels and creams obtained from compounding pharmacies in an effort to boost a waning sex drive, often brought on by menopause. And recently, Proctor & Gamble announced data from clinical trials of its Intrinsa patch for women. Should the patch be approved for sale, making it the first drug treatment for female sexual dysfunction on the market and likely cause other companies to follow and reap huge economic rewards for this.
However, despite the recent attention to this issue, about 30 years ago doctors noticed that women given testosterone-related steroids for treatment of medical conditions reported a sex drive boost as a side effect. During these intervening three decades, as many as half of all women are estimated to have been suffering from low libido and other sexual problems.
I felt that the program brought up some very interesting issues that I’ve found to be true in my experiences. Commonly, I hear on TV and radio about the various types of male enhancement drugs such as Viagra, Levetra, and other forms of male enhancement used in the treatment of sexual dysfunction. It was rare to hear someone like Mr. Alexander speak on the opposite side of the topic, a side that, in agreement, I felt is not discussed in our American society today. If females can be helped in the similar manner as males in sexual dysfunction m...