Female Viagra Articles
(research articles concerning the use of Viagra for female sexual dysfunction)
The following articles discuss the efficacy of the use of Viagra in women:



Viagra for Women - Can it Solve Women's Sexual Problems?

Expanding The Viagra Market to Include Women

Viagra Does Not Offer Women Relief

Viagra for Women - Can it Solve Women's Sexual Problems?

Palmer R., J. Urology, March 1999


Viagra. The little blue pills that have transformed many men’s sex lives overnight and entered popular culture like a bolt of blue lightning. However, men aren’t the only ones who can become subject to sexual problems and much research is underway to see if the potent effects of Viagra can do wonders for women as well. The results are in from the first study to report and the bad news is that there seems to be little or no benefit to help women with sexual dysfunction.

The study was performed at the Columbia Presbyterian Center in New York where 33 postmenopausal women were given Viagra 3 times a week for 12 weeks. The women had all previously complained of some form of sexual dysfunction ranging from decreased arousal to an inability to reach orgasm. Three women dropped out complaining of discomfort and hypersensitivity and other side effects included minor dizziness and headaches.

About one quarter of the women receiving the drug did report some improvement in sexual function, but this is the same percentage as the percentage of men who reported an improvement while taking a placebo. Thus, it is believed that these women were responding to the psychological effects of taking a pill rather than the drug itself.

The conclusions of the study were, "We found that there was no significant change either in intercourse satisfaction or in the degree of sexual desire after the patients had taken Viagra for 12 weeks." Viagra works in men by increasing the effects of nitric oxide produced in the body which in turn leads to an increase in blood flow to the genitals. It was theorized that in the same way Viagra should work for women.

Summary

The authors of the study acknowledge that further research is necessary as their study was performed in a relatively small group of women who were examined for a relatively short period of time. Pfizer, who manufacture the drug are conducting their own studies in women and the results are expected later this year. However, so far it seems Viagra is not the answer to the prayers of women with sexual dysfunction.

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Expanding The Viagra Market to Include Women.

Maryann Napoli, PR Newswire: December, 1999


Now that the impotence drug, Viagra, is such a financial success, its manufacturer, Pfizer Pharmaceutics, Inc., and other pharmaceutical companies are looking to market similar drugs to women. This was one of the unstated goals of an international medical conference held in October, sponsored by the Boston University School of Medicine. The conference brought together physicians, government regulators, and industry executives to discuss the problem of female sexual dysfunction and what can be done about it. Of course, what can be done about it just might be perpetual drug therapy. The event was largely paid for with "unrestricted educational grants" from Pfizer and several other large pharmaceutical companies.

Before the conference even got off the ground, it received critical coverage in The Los Angeles Times, Sojourner: The Women's Forum, and the Boston Globe thanks to a small group of women led by Leonore Tiefer, PhD, which was concerned that women's sexuality is being turned into a medical problem by physicians, primarily urologists, working with drug companies. Appropriate avenues of research, they contend, will be dictated by the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration. The conference, entitled "New Perspectives in the Management of Female Sexual Dysfunction," was organized by Irwin Goldstein, MD, urologist and erectile dysfunction researcher at Boston University School of Medicine. Urologists led the research efforts on sexual response difficulties in men, and they are now making the transition to women, according to Dr. Tiefer, who is a sex therapist and clinical professor in the departments of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine.
Urologists, like other physicians, have little training in human sexuality. They are surgeons who specialize in diseases of the bladder, kidneys and genitals. This could explain the numerous conference presentations which Dr. Tiefer describes as, "years of work with female animals examining their clitoral and vaginal arteries for signs of the same sort of blockages urologists liked to claim caused erection problems for men." She would like to see a wider array of views represented at future conferences that would include, for example, sex therapists and psychologists. In short, experts with social, psychological, and/or cultural perspectives on sexuality.

Dr. Tiefer presented a paper at the conference encouraging the participants to be alert to "the insidious dangers of commercialization of your research" and "how the pressures of industry will influence [your] epidemiological research so as to expand the potential market for their products." She advises fellow researchers to look beyond the medical model with its minimal physical listing (desire, arousal and orgasm) drawn from Masters and Johnson and address the equally essential elements like social class, sexual orientation, religion, race, and nationality. "Sexual satisfaction is very much dependent on expectations," she said in a telephone interview, and "expectations are dependent on cultural realities."

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Viagra Does Not Offer Women Relief
Study On Viagra's Effect On Women With Sexual Dysfunction

Kaplan S.A., Department of Urology and director of neurology at the Columbia Presbyterian Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The first preliminary study on the effects of Viagra on women with sexual dysfunction found the male impotence drug provided little, if any, relief.

The study of 33 postmenopausal women was published in the March issue of the medical journal Urology. "We found that there was no significant change either in intercourse satisfaction or in the degree of sexual desire after the patients had taken Viagra for 12 weeks," said Steven A. Kaplan, administrator of the Department of Urology and director of neurology at the Columbia Presbyterian Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Kaplan, who led the research team, acknowledged Friday that the study is not comprehensive because of the small number of women evaluated and a relatively short follow-up survey. Since Viagra's introduction in April 1998, more than 6 million prescriptions of the anti-impotence pill have been have written, almost all to men.

Pfizer Inc., the manufacturer of the drug, is studying Viagra's effect on women. The study is to be released later this year, said Pfizer spokeswoman Mariann Caprino. "We can't comment on the Columbia Presbyterian Center study because we haven't analyzed it yet, but women's sexual health is a rapidly evolving field and any data is certainly helpful," she said. Participants in the study had complained of sexual dysfunction, ranging from decreased arousal to inability to achieve orgasm. Each was in a monogamous relationship for at least 6 months and took Viagra an average of three times each week during the 12-week study. Three of the 33 women dropped out after reporting discomfort and hypersensitivity. Other side effects included minor dizziness and headaches.

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