Female Viagra

More than 17 years after the FDA approved Pfizer’s Viagra, the first drug to treat low sexual desire in women has won approval from U.S. health regulators. Addyi (flibanserin), produced by privately-held Sprout Pharmaceuticals, will only be available through certified health care professionals and pharmacies due to its safety issues.

The drug is dangerous. There is an increased risk of severe hypotension and syncope (temporary loss of consciousness) when alcohol is consumed. This is a significant risk considering that Addyi will be taken daily at bedtime so patients who consume alcohol, even occasionally, will have an increased risk of these side effects.

The drug, which is supposed to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder, has already been rejected twice. Time Magazine ran an article that listed the different opinions of doctors. Medical experts who oppose its approval argue flibanserin’s results are not very encouraging. Probably no more dependable than a placebo.

Unlike Viagra, which affects blood flow to the genitals, Addyi is meant to activate sexual impulses in the brain. It is similar to a class of other drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI’s, that include antidepressants such as Prozac. However, those antidepressants, which raise levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, are known to blunt libido. Addyi blocks certain cellular receptors from responding to serotonin.

Better to consume a list of more natural forms of aphrodisiacs in the form of foods. However, the safest option to increase sexual desire in women is the love and understanding that men can provide their women. One of the best natural therapies would be color therapy and specifically it is known that the color purple increases sexual imagination. A much better choice than a toxic drug.

Most doctors and medical associations just do not get that women are different from men sexually. They do not have genitals that function independent of their hearts and minds. The feminine principle is pretty much dead in modern civilization and especially at the FDA, which runs like the SS, a medical Gestapo. The FDA again proves what type of organization it is exposing women in America to the dangers and horrors of pharmaceutical drugs. They are the most unnatural organization in the world poisoning people instead of helping.

More Sex

More Sex though is a good idea. More sex is certainly an answer in our age of increasing stress. Sex is a mental health tonic and some argue that it is 10 times as effective as Valium due to the surge in key hormones, including oxytocin during sex. Sex is potentially the most effective stress reliever offering instant mood improvement and a general sense of relaxed wellbeing. In the afterglow of good sex, we are better able to let go of distracting thoughts that interrupt sleep, thereby overcoming insomnia in many cases. The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality has found that people with fulfilling sex lives are in fact less anxious, violent and hostile.

Preventive gerontologist Dr. Michael Roizen estimates that we can add nearly two years to our life simply by having good sex twice a week. “Having more sex for men, a higher quality of sex for women correlates with being younger.” As scientists learn more about links between good sex, our brains, emotions and body functions, they are confirming the linkage between good sex and longevity. “A good sexual relationship is essential to good health,” says Dr. Barbara Bartlick, psychiatry professor who founded the Human Sexuality Program at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Intimacy is the Key

Intimacy provides us with the clearest and most beautiful vision and a pathway to more sex as well as love. Intimacy requires and is a beautiful space. Sex and love though can both contain highly negative qualities in normal human expression, but intimacy is something that happens between souls when we reach out to others with trust; it’s a space we enter when we dare to open our hearts and just be. It happens when we put away all the fancy airs and just be who we really are without fear of judgment. Though sexuality and love can be selfish, intimacy represent a pure space between beings.Intimacy is very much connected to vulnerability for it is the sharing of vulnerabilities between beings that creates intimacy.

These are words from my Love and Sex Medicine book. There are many things we can do to rescue the sexuality of our women, but it takes love, patience and a level of intimacy that most men are not used to. We need to become better and more sensitive beings, something we have moved away from to participate in our male dominated civilization that is about to fall apart at the seams. Drugs are not the answer to anything unless they are natural; certainly, they are not the answer to safe and beautiful sex for women. Marijuana is perhaps the only drug that is safe and can lubricate the inner worlds of women to help them relax into their sexualities.

Too many of us though are sexual barbarians and in India they still kill women accusing them of being witches. Women who elect to use this newly approved drug are not going to find what they are looking for. They will cut their lives short eventually from the chronic use of unnatural substances that will affect their brains. Sexual fundamentalism does not serve women at all.

Sexual Healing

Dr. Rachel Carlton Abrams said, “Taoism is a spiritual tradition that embraces our sexual desire and uses it within our bodies as a force for healing and spiritual growth. Desire is a rich and potent part of our human experience. The Taoists think of desire, called sexual energy or jing chi, as part of our life energy, or chi. To be passionate is to be full of chi. The English words ‘desire’ or ‘passion’ connote a feeling of yearning and fervor that includes sex, but they also reflect our strongest feelings about life. When we are passionate about anything—our family, our work, our spirituality, an important social cause—we are investing our chi in this experience. Our passion is what moves us to action and ultimately is what gives us joy. We are passionate about the things that matter most to us.”

Did you know that the most common cause of PTSD in women is sexual trauma and no female Viagra is going to touch that!  A woman’s vulnerability to develop PSTD is linked to that individual’s history of victimization. Reports estimate that 15-38% of women experience childhood sexual abuse, 13-20% experience adult rape and at least 20% experience battering.[1] Sexual and physical abuse in women can result in PTSD and other psychological and psychiatric disturbances. A growing number of studies indicate that such abuse may produce a wide variety of somatic symptoms and disturbances in physical health including eventually cancer.

Conclusion

There are many ways for women, with or without a man, to open more deeply to their sexualities. Quality sexual aids (vibrators) can be of great assistance but nothing turns on a woman more than love. It is through their hearts that women open their sexualities. It is through love that greater sexuality can be realized.

If a woman wants to use a drug, in addition to medical marijuana, there is no better drug to realize heightened sexuality than oxygen, which can be administered in high dosages while exercising. However even increased levels of oxygen cannot compete with love, tenderness and the empathetic listening ears of a lover. The only other thing, besides increasing awareness of the subtleties of human sexuality I can think of to enhance sexual activity is to make love on a far-infrared mattress. That can be wonderful, especially in cooler environments.

Special Note

Though there is little literature on the use of ketamine for sexual improvements in women but it does address the post-traumatic stress that too many women experience from the life experiences with childhood sexual abuse and rape. For all those who are depressed and have the feeling they would rather be dead, or even for severe anxiety, this is necessary and incredible read on intravenous use of ketamine. Though not natural, this one drug (not the kind pharma likes) is enough to make one believe that there are medicines that really do work, without damaging the body.

Patients don’t need a prescription, but not just anyone can get an appointment. “You have to have the right story,” Dr. Glen Brooks says. “For ketamine to work, there needs to be some preexisting brain damage caused by post-traumatic stress. I’m looking for some indication of childhood trauma. If not overt pain, then fear, anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem—or bullying, real or perceived.” Patients receive a low dose of the drug: about one-tenth of what recreational abusers of ketamine take or about one-fifth of what might be used as a general anesthetic.