Sex
Rump Presentation
Scientists are work on a new pill—according to a British tab—one that ups women’s libidos while decreasing their appetites.
A wonder pill has been developed which not only boosts a female’s sex drive, but helps her lose weight at the same time. So far it has been tested only on shrews and monkeys, scientists believe humans could be taking it within a decade.Female musk shrews and marmosets were injected with the Type 2 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone, and displayed classic mating behaviour towards their male counterparts. In the shrews, this was shown by “rump presentation and tail wagging,” while the monkeys began “tongue flicking and eyebrow raising”, said the professor.
Comments (12)
It will be interesting to see if this drug is covered by insurance since many plans cover viagra but not the pill.
Posted by D. | April 30, 2007 9:50 AMShrews and monkeys? There's a joke there - who can make it?
Posted by Soupytwist | April 30, 2007 10:04 AMThe trickle-down from the primary literature to the popular press is excruciating...
Posted by Rschr | April 30, 2007 10:41 AMSay what you will about the outrageously sexist implications of developing such a drug (Erica?), but you have to admit that whoever came up with the idea of a combination diet-pill/libido booster is a marketing genius. It's as if the editorial board at Cosmopolitan had its own pharmaceutical research arm.
Posted by flamingbanjo | April 30, 2007 11:14 AM"rump presentation and tail wagging"
If only it were so simple for humans.
Posted by keshmeshi | April 30, 2007 11:37 AMflamingbanjo: it's not that simple... drug companies don't just say "we want to develop a drug that ups libido, lowers appetite!" when drugs with brand new functions are developed, their process goes something like:
1) find a chemical that hasn't been tested well
2) jam test animals full of that chemical
3) see what happens
in this case it's a form of GnRH, a very common and well known human/animal hormone that it sounds like scientists just hadn't stuffed animals full of yet to see what happens.
Posted by jamier | April 30, 2007 11:44 AM@5:
If only it were so simple for humans.>
OH, BUT IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
Posted by maxsolomon | April 30, 2007 11:54 AM@5:
Posted by Noink | April 30, 2007 12:18 PMHOTT.
I just need to stop taking my birth control for THAT.
Maybe if we developed male birth control we could shift the hormone imbalance, huh?
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