Viagra Equivalent For Women - A True Aphrodisiac: Part 2
16 10 2007Viagra-Like-Aphrodisiac For Women : Part 2

This is Part 2, Part 1 is here
REVIEW FROM PART 1:
“More good news is that there is a chemical being tested right now that could do the job.
Bremelanotide, a synthetic version of a hormone involved in skin pigmentation, was developed as a potential tanning agent when some of the male college students participating in the study reported getting erections after application of the agent. Naturally, the developing company quickly began exploring bremelanotide’s characteristics for sexual disorders, (make people more horny).
This stuff could be the miracle social drug to beat them all because when tested on rats, the drug not only gave the male rats erections, it actually created sexual desire in the female rats, perfect! Imagine this at spring break!”
First, it’s important to note that when the studies were done on rats, the female rats responded to the drug only when they could maintain a sense of control over the mating game. In other words, the female rats could get away from the male rat if they wanted. When that escape route was closed, no amount of bremelanotide would sexually excite the female rats. This is important because according to Annette M. Shadiack, director of biological research of Palatin, “this does not look like a potential date-rape drug.”
Inspired by the rodent work, researchers decided to try the drug on women. Results from a pilot study of 26 women with diagnoses of sexual arousal disorder suggest that bremelanotide may well have some mild aphrodisiacal properties.
The participating women were given bremelanotide or a placebo, then answered questionnaires. Based on those questionnaires,
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73 percent of the women on bremelanotide reported feeling genitally aroused.
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23 percent given the placebo reported feeling genitally aroused.
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43 percent of the bremelanotide group said the treatment increased their sexual desire.
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19 percent of the placebo group said the treatment increased their sexual desire.
Sounds like pretty good odds to me, I’ll take a case please!

Women in the bremelanotide group also were slightly more likely to have sex with their partners during the course of the trial than were those in the placebo group, although who initiated the bed bouncing was not specified.
Larger trials of the drug at some 20 clinical centers around the United States are now under way.
