Drug Companies Race For Female 'Viagra'
27.02.10
Drug Companies Race For Female ‘Viagra’
Posted on: Saturday, 27 February 2010, 06:55 CST
Drugmakers have waited to find an equivalent to Viagra for women ever sense Pfizer introduced the blue pill to the pharmaceutical market.
Reuters reports that Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim is ahead of the race to find a similar pill for a female libido, which could excite passions of a different kind among some women's health experts.
Boehringer funded a survey that showed the emotional impact and distress caused by low sexual desire.
However, critics say it is evidence of the firm's attempt to market low female libido as a disorder.
"The idea that a lack of interest in sex should be immediately approached with a pill means the multiple contributory factors to sexual problems may well be missed -- resulting in any medication being largely ineffective," Lisa Martinez, founder of the Women's Sexual Health Foundation, an international advocacy group based in the United States, told Reuters.
Source: RedOrbit
Spicing up your sex drive with the next female Viagra?
23.02.10
SAN ANTONIO - This question is for the ladies: How is your sex life these days?
You may be floored to hear just how many women are not having sex because they are just not in the mood. But News 4 WOAI's Delaine Mathieu has some promising news that may help millions of women rev up their sex drive. SA doctors are working on what could be the first prescription drug for women with low libido.
Many women "fake it" -- that's not a secret. But why do they do it? Turns out, they probably weren't in the mood in the first place! More than 40 million American women -- nearly half -- between the ages of 19 and 59 have lost their sexual desire.
Amy McCabe, 32, is one of those women.
"It is a problem, for me," she says. "It's a problem and it's not me anymore."
She's been happily married for eight years, but her sex drive has taken a nose dive.
"I married my husband because he's my best friend, but also because there was an attraction there. And there still is, but there's just not that spark in me anymore."
Source: WOAI
DVD Review: Paul Rodriguez Presents: Comedy Rehab
09.03.10
Paul Rodriguez Presents: Comedy Rehab was filmed in Santa Fe, NM, and brings together some of Latino/Hispanic comedy’s funniest people. Comedian Dennis Gaxiola opens the show and introduces the evening’s host, Paul Rodriguez. Gaxiola’s performance can be seen in the special features delivering more of his routine, which is excerpted here.
Paul Rodriguez, now in his fifties and funny as ever, treats us to his views on family planning, mid-life crises, diets, cheating, and moms: “our mothers are the centers of everything we are, the centers of our world.” Which means he gets the mom’s seal of approval (me being the mom). He also offers excellent advice to his audience, “what other people think of you is none of your business…if you’re happy with you that’s all that matters. Find somebody that loves you—at that weight.” He then discusses the advantages of large women over skinny women (larger women can back you up) and Viagra. Towards the end of his set he explains why Latinos never get eaten by wild animals. Call me crazy, but is Paul Rodriguez beginning to sound like Jackie Mason? He’s oh-so-Latino, but every once in a while, I swear, a little Jackie Mason creeps into his delivery.
Source: Blogcritics.org (blog)
The effect of the Viagra generation can be seen in the growth of interest in sex among older men over the past 10 years, but interest in sex has remained
Not understanding how to use it, he winds up flooding the washroom, discovering magnum condoms and a bottle of Viagra. Later in the film, a goat (yep,
The “female Viagra.” Nazi Germany. Honor killing. Jazz. The Women's Film Festival might be the only time of year when all these topics fall under one