Fake pills for female Viagra prove some bad sex is in your head
By Brian FairbanksSeptember 20th, 2010, 10:24 amComments (23)
It's been far long since we tapped that (source known as the Journal of Sexual Medicine.) There's no avoiding their latest issue, which aims to definitely answer the question of whether bad sex is all in your head... ladies. Their results show that a huge percentage of the female population claimed to be having better sex since taking a pill they thought was meant to arouse them.
Of course, the pill was a placebo -- filled with sugar.
50 women... received a placebo instead of tadalafil in an old clinical trial for the drug, which is now sold as Cialis (and which wouldn't have done much for the women anyway, since it's an erectile-dysfunction drug).
[Psychologists] crunched the numbers on the placebo arm of that trial and found that many women said their sex lives significantly improved when they were taking what they thought could be tadalafil. The women, ages 35 to 55 and all pre-menopausal, had all been diagnosed with female sexual arousal disorder. But after a few weeks on the placebo, the women as a group reported less distress and more fun in their sex lives.
The women also received some psychological treatment during the trial... the women were asked to change their behavior: to try to have sex at least three times a month....
Pushing oneself to change regular patterns can be a potent treatment on its own. Also, filling out questionnaires forces you to self-monitor, which can be crucial to getting better. [Time.com]
Anyone out there want to weigh on this? Have you had sexual problems that were solved by pills or through therapy?
Commentarium (23 Comments)
So what you're saying is that sugar is an aphrodisiac?
Three times a month? I would positively expire if that was all I got....
Theory: Female sexuality has been so maligned, feared, controlled though history, that some women can only fully express their sexuality when it can be somehow disowned, or projected onto something else, ie "Beatlemania" and the like. Being given a pill could work to allow a woman to not have to take responsibility for her arousal (it's not me, it's the drug), thus allowing for more open, full expression of sexuality and allowing the self to "enjoy it" more. Do women suppress at least some of their sex drive in order to be socially acceptable, or even acceptable to themselves given a mental framework that thinks that it's normal to abstain or remain more in control in the face of desire?
This not really news. 12% of the male clinical test subjects for Viagra showed improvement on Placebo. Women are not the only ones with mental hangups about sex.
"Their results show that a huge percentage of the female population..." What? Are you high?
Hmm, 12%, 50%. Yeah, that's the same.
There are no statistics in this article so comparing 12% male placebo is null -- would be nice to know how significant any of these findings really were.
BUT
... woman know this, and most men do too. Get her out of her redundant overanalyzation and she'll have much more fun.
Amazing how the actual facts from the study always seem to get lost..... the study actually says approximately one third of placebo recipients had significant improvement. ie. about 17 out of 50
sooo, this article is basically saying to women "that smelly troll you're married to is not the problem, just close your eyes and think of Empire. " -and- "your problems are ALLLL in your head, little crazy lady!"
I THINK I'm getting the tone of this article, which is a FAIL.
im a guy leaving a comment that makes it seem like im a woman..... Just enjoy a hotdog in your taco. Case closed.
I think Merkin Man may have a point. I like bondage for similar reasons.
I'm not trying to pick you up through comments, just so we're clear. O_O
Its always been psychological. Woman try so hard to maintain a "Mystique" and feel like they need to be truly "loved" to "give it up".The reality that men just want to get laid blows their minds.
I find this with a lot of women, Charlotte. Wanting to be taken, dominated, etc. though I have also perceived fear in women of truly giving in to these desires, as letting go of control is scary, especially in a western society that has no concept of the power of surrender and the pleasure in letting go. On some level, I think we're all afraid of who we truly are, and that is wild, uninhibited, expressive, and perhaps a bit hedonistic? Men have a hard enough time, when we at least "have permission" to want sex often, and with many partners. How hard it must be for women who have far more at stake in regards to "what everyone will think of me." Even in private, "what my partner will think of me acting completely uninhibited in my sexual expression" or even how a woman privately views herself if she is way more into sex than she "should be." And I'm disappointed, because I ran out and bought brand new handcuffs, a whip, and a full leather body suit upon reading the first half of your comment, only to return and read the rest of it and realize that we are never meant to be...hope I kept the receipt...
I have found the best female aphrodisiac to be something called "white wine" and it works every time, the modern emancipated female cannot seem to get it down her neck fast enough, thank you Echo Falls for your sterling work in rendering Single, educated 30 something females all over the world into slavering sex beasts every weekend !
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