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That doesn't keep drugmakers from trying to develop a treatment, seduced by the prospect of a multibillion-dollar blockbuster that could be even bigger than Viagra and its competitors combined. At a European conference for sexual medicine on Monday, a German pharmaceutical company presented results from a pivotal phase III clinical trial in North America and announced that it had found a drug that works. "We saw an increase in sexually satisfying events, an increase in desire and a decrease in distress. When we look at this against a backdrop of a common and distressing problem that affects...
...about a decade, roughly since the FDA approved Viagra for sexual dysfunction in men, drug companies have been searching for the female version of the little blue pill, a drug to cure what ails women like Wendy in bed. But what ails them - a psychiatric condition known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), defined as a distressing lack of sexual desire, absent other medical conditions - has been notoriously difficult to pin down. (See how to prevent illness...
Whether or not the FDA approves flibanserin to treat women's libidos, the German company's trial results have reignited a decade-long debate over the merit of the HSDD diagnosis - the most commonly diagnosed female sexual dysfunction - which some psychologists say is a made-up condition, promoted precisely for the service of moments like this: a drug-company rep at a conference on sex declaring that a treatment has been discovered...
...disfigurement, is played by first-time actor and cherubism sufferer Victoria Wright. Peter Mitchell, another debut performer, had looked forward to a career as a top-flight soccer player before a car crash redesigned his life. He plays Dan, the wheelchair-using focus of Carrie's burgeoning lust. "My sexual relationship with Dan will really challenge people," says Stamell...
...Detroit police officers who alleged that they were essentially dismissed for investigating concerns about Kilpatrick and his bodyguards' efforts to conceal his extramarital affairs. Then came a text-messaging scandal, which revealed that Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, had lied under oath about a sexual relationship that apparently had existed since their days at Detroit's élite Cass Tech High School. (See more on TIME's Detroit blog...