Drugs & Sex

Liz Canner took a job editing erotic content for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company developing the "Lady" viagara. Her experiences are chronicled in a new documentary Orgasm Inc:

Bravo Terry Alen for calling out Big Pharma and their lackeys; Some 22 drug companies, including Pfizer, had financial ties to 18 of the 19 authors that defined female sexual dysfunction. Smart women just get a vibrator and tune into a hot fantasy and enjoy all the orgasms they want when they want them. We need to STOP defining female sexuality with the male model. What's good for the goose just doesn't work for the gander.

My favorite line: "The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs."

I knew my body had a mind of its own but I didn't know why. SCIENTISTS have identified the Marilyn Monroe hormone that is linked to an hour-glass shape in women, and also an increased desire to trade-up to new men.

Women who have high levels of oestradoil also show elevated confidence and a greater inclination to have sex outside of their current relationship, according to the US-based research.

The ovarian steroid hormone is also associated with having a symmetrical face, large breasts and a low waist-to-hip ratio.

"Marilyn Monroe is actually a really good example of a woman who was almost certainly high in oestradoil," Australian sexologist Dr Frances Quirk said in response to the research.

"She was a classic hour-glass figure and because of her relationship pattern - she was a serial monogamist.

Thanks goes to Dr. David Hersh for sending this along. I get questions about lack of sexual interest from far too many people taking anti-depressants. Personally I'd rather see people take advantage of the cannabis plant either smoked or made into a tea. But of course, the big pharmaceutical companies would lose a lot of money. Boo Hoo!

The front page of this morning's *Boston Globe* includes an article: "Antidepressants may damage more sex lives" by Carey Goldberg. Here are some excerpts:

Sexual "numbness." Lack of libido. Arousal that stalls.

Such sexual symptoms have long been known side effects of the popular Prozac class of antidepressants, but a growing body of research suggests that they are far more common than previously thought, perhaps affecting half or more of patients.

And a handful of recent medical and psychological journal articles document a small number of cases in which sexual problems remain even after a patient goes off the drugs.