Bad Sexual Chemistry: Female viagra is a flawed idea
ANEW drug dubbed the female Viagra has, after two rejections, been greenlit by the US Food & Drug Administration. It may be coming our way soon. A women’s group, Even The Score, campaigned for it. Their premise is that as there is Viagra for men, there should be Viagra for women.
The new drug has nothing to do with Viagra (which causes erections), and has nothing to do with Pfizer, the manufacturers of Viagra.It is made by Sprout pharmaceuticals, and works via neurotransmitters on serotonin and dopamine centres in the brain, similarly to anti-depressants. You don’t take it before sex, as with Viagra, but once a day, like Prozac.
