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...drug to prescribe, doctors will feel the need to establish "norms"--say two orgasms a week--and women who fall short are bound to feel inadequate, unfeminine, even pathological. Better, Tiefer thinks, for them to seek more satisfying relationships or more inspiring partners than rely on a pill for their thrills...
...Avlimil: The pill contains various plant leaves and roots and is touted as the female Viagra, but experts question its effectiveness...
...relationship. Divorce lawyers talk these days about Viagra affairs and split-ups. Some doctors are prescribing testosterone as a libido booster for so-called low-T women, helping push up testosterone sales some 17 times in the past decade to about $400 million annually. Variously given as a pill combined with estrogen or as a patch, cream or injection, testosterone remains unproven as a sex aid. Meanwhile, it can cause oily skin, unwanted facial hair, a lowered voice and an upsetting onslaught of sexual fantasies...
There were disappointing results on the research front as well. Scientists found that some anti-AIDS therapies seem to increase the risk of heart attack 25%, at least in the first few years of treatment. In addition, studies showed that taking a break--or "drug holiday"--from the grueling pill-popping schedule does not improve the body's ability to overcome drug-resistant forms...
Women in the U.S. are a step closer to getting emergency contraception without the need for a doctor's prescription. An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the morning-after pill become available over the counter. If approved, Plan B, as the two-pill regimen would be called, would enable women to end pregnancies within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse...