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Six years after Viagra revolutionized sexual ability for men,
many women are still hoping for their turn. To date, the FDA hasn’t approved a
product to boost female sex drive.

It’s no small problem. A low sex drive is the most common
sexual complaint made by women — up to 30% to 40% of them, according to Sandra
Lieblum, PhD, director for the Center for Sexual and Health at the
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.

The Search for a Cure

Throughout the ages, various potions and contraptions have
pledged relief, but the discerning have wondered if the so-called remedies are
truly love liniments, or merely snake oil.

Just because someone makes a claim about boosting female
libido, it doesn’t mean that it’s true, says Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN,
vice president of the World Association for Sexology. “We have to make sure
that the claim is being made on scientific evidence.”

Yet, even if something appears to work in scientific research,
there is the concern that just being part of a study to improve a women’s sex
drive might itself have a suggestive effect on libido; it’s called a placebo
effect.

“It has to do with women’s and hope that any
intervention will prove beneficial,” says Lieblum, noting that anticipation
can also change behavior. “Any woman who goes into a trial to improve
libido is motivated to be more active.”

The power of placebo is so strong that many health experts look
only to double-blind, placebo-controlled trials to prove a product’s
effectiveness. In these studies, a group of subjects receive a real drug, while
another set gets a dummy substance. Neither the researchers nor the
participants know which the real medicine is.

Apply this criterion to the dozens of for women
out there, and the number of suitable elixirs dwindles down to possibly one or
two that work for some women. Even with the best of studies, expert opinion
varies on what works best for female libido.

There is a consensus, however, on just how intricate female
desire is. “Women’s drive is so complex that biology is only one factor
that drives sex drive,” says Jean Koehler, PhD, a licensed family and
marriage therapist in Louisville, Ky., and past president of the American
Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

Besides biology, the following factors can affect female
libido:

• Quality of the relationship
• Attitudes of upbringing
• Support of peer group
• Quality of touch and sex
• Understanding of partners
• Age
• Illness
• Use of medications
• Emotional well-being

Trouble with one or a combination of these factors can affect
women’s sex drive. Such loss of interest in sex is medically identified as
hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

There are some popular products that have either been designed
or tested to treat HSDD.

Viagra

Despite rumors and various advertising claims to the contrary,
there isn’t a female Viagra out there.

“We know that Viagra doesn’t work in women,” says
Whipple.

“Women are not minimen,” Whipple explains. “We are
different than men in what we want, what we desire, what feels good to us, and
we’re also different at the biochemical level.”

Female sexuality is, indeed, so much more complex than male
sexuality that even after several scientific studies involving about 3,000
women, Viagra-maker Pfizer hasn’t been able to come up with conclusive
findings. Earlier this year, the company announced it was ending research of
Viagra in women.

But this does not mean there isn’t hope for some women.
Research is ongoing on several other products for female libido.

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