Female Viagra

I heard about this story when it broke from much more unbiased sources. I'll be frank in saying that I have serious issues with that Youtube channel in general and the atmosphere that it creates.

Pharmaceuticals is by far the most complicated and confusing commercial field out there. Without a doubt our most important commercial field, but it is an extremely difficult field to manage. Every single day something new is being created and corporations are attempting to receive approval on various types of products. Recently, I just switched brands of almond milk because of some uncertainty in the research surrounding a specific unnecessary ingredient in the brand that I often purchased. And that is simply milk!

Drugs with low probabilities of success hit the shelves every day through corporations pressuring government agencies. It is not simply pharmaceuticals or food products either. It is brands of water claiming to be pure spring water that are from filthy pipes in Minnesota. It is electronic companies. It is gasoline and oil. These things happen every day. While it is clear that the corporation backing this drug used feminism as a method to draw the media to this story, the idea that the feminists overpowered our government and allowed for the approval of this sub-par drug" is ridiculous when this happens literally every day. Not to mention, Viagra itself was certainly not what it is today when it was first released. The health scares surrounding that drug hitting the market were insane.

The bottom line is that the makers of this drug definitely played into the feminist belief that there is a degree of bias in the way that we market sexual products and medication exclusively towards men and the lack of products on the market for women into campaigning for their drug. However, the argument that was being made is still valid regardless of the controversy surrounding this specific drug. If feminists created this issue and truly paved the way for the release of this drug, then we wouldn't be seeing this same battle between the FDA and corporations every single day about drugs that we have in our medicine cabinets right now.

There is an unquestionable lack of attention being given to creating drugs for women suffering with libido complications because we live in this society that says that women don't even really care for sex anyway. When you think about the fact that we actually live in a culture where a women receiving an organism in a heterosexual interaction is considered rare and men are considered talented for simply taking the time to make sure that their female partners are satisfied. Our culture bias does seep into what topics we tackle in commercial medicine and that is a valid argument regardless of whether a corporation tried to ride the coattails of it in this specific case.

 

We've acknowledge that women experience sexual attraction and desire, but we are far from treating female sexual satisfaction as though it is even slightly as important to male satisfaction. Sure, women want to have sex, but they receive satisfaction by pleasing men. That sentiment is far too ingrained in our culture and media for a few movies to minimize.

Now, I have no doubt that drug will likely only have the effects of a placebo, but the side efforts of that drug are no greater than what you would find on the most popular allergy medication.

Feminist organizations around the country did not dig up this drug out of nowhere and decide to campaign for it. They campaigned for the sentiment behind introducing more of this kind of medication. The question of whether is was this miracle drug is irrelevant because that is simply not the state of pharmaceuticals these days. If we expected Viagra to be a miracle drug when it hit the shelves than it would certainly not still be on those shelves today because Viagra was controversial in the medical community for years.

Ultimately, the point is that there is a difference between say that "all women need to take this drug to empower themselves because men have a version of it" and saying that "we support the work that is being done here and expect corporations and agencies to start paying attention to female libido medication regardless of whether the results are where they need to be at this time". While I feel that most women were arguing the latter, many choose to make it a matter of the former to make what they were saying seem them seem ridiculous. Most people have a general understanding that half of the stuff that they grab off the shelves likely won't work and even the stuff that will has dozens of terrifying potential side effects. That is the market we live in.

 

You do realize those are not uncommon side effects and include the vast majority of medication that targets the heart, nervous system, or brain. Mixing most serious medication with alcohol is extremely dangerous.

You might have taken that statement to mean "Oh, it probably doesn't even have an serious potential side effects", when I was saying the opposite. One of the most popular anti-acne medications on the market requires the teenagers be watched closely on behalf of the potential side effect of hormone induced depression and potential suicidal thoughts. It has also been linked to miscarriages so many times that women are meant to be screened for . An cream for acne and blemishes.

I am not downplaying anything. I am saying that potentially dangerous side effects are unfortunately the norm of the modern drug industry. The fine print on the drugs that we grab on whims tells some terrifying information; however, these side effects have never stop drugs from hitting the market. Should it be on the market? Probably not. But it certainly wasn't the pressure of feminists that put it there. It terms of what is currently on the market it is just not shocking.

I am not saying that it should be on the market. I am saying that women making the argument that there is a need for drugs such as this on the market is not the same as supporting poor medicine or knowing nothing about science such as that video suggests. The controversy surrounding this drug is being used to invalidate the argument that we need drugs such as this on the market and the existence of bias in commercial drugs completely. "Look at what the foolish feminists have done. The drug doesn't even work that well." When the argument being made is valid regardless of whether this is the golden drug.

 

I thought this was already a thing. I remember seeing commercials for something called Zestra, which was some weird oil that she can put on her intimate parts that increases sensation.