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Women’s Fliberation
Will Big Pharma's female libido-booster Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill?
by, Tania Rabesandratana
27 January 2010

Big pharma claims to hold the chemical key to a vigorous female libido. It’s called Flibanserin and you pop it to get randy. Inkling writer Tania Rabesandratana investigates to find out whether it’s indeed that simple.

Serendipitous drug development makes for a good story. It makes science sound surprising while making the pharmaceutical industry look spontaneous and candid. Remember how Pfizer was originally looking for a compound against hypertension, and ended up marketing Viagra?

In the (not-yet-so-naughty) noughties, global pharmaceutical firm Boehringer-Ingelheim tested Flibanserin as an anti-depressant. The drug didn’t work against depression, but to everyone’s surprise it boosted the ever-mysterious…

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/womens-fliberation/

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