Are Women Actually Buying Addyi, the ‘Female Viagra’?

In 1998, Viagra’s first month on the market weighed in at half of a million prescriptions and for Addyi, in the first few weeks, only 227 prescriptions were filled.

In addition to the lack of interest, the prescriptions that are filled leave women scratching their heads with it’s overwhelming lack of change in libido. According to the patients, they experience, half of one satisfying sexual encounter a month,” while taking the drug. While we aren’t exactly sure what “one half” of a sexual encounter may include quite yet, it doesn’t sound incredibly hopeful.

 

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By S. Nicole Lane on March 2, 2016
Nicole is a women's health journalist living in Chicago. Her sex and art column, "Intimate Justice" can be found on Sixty Inches from Center. She also contributes to The Establishment, HelloGiggles, GO Magazine, and elsewhere. In addition to writing she is an artist who works with assemblage and sculpture. She tweets at @snicolelane.