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A revolutionary new drug claims to be the first that actually boosts a woman’s desire for sex.

Maker Sprout pharmaceuticals claim it doubles the number of ‘satisfying sexual events’ for women who have lost interest in sex.

Unlike drugs such as Viagra, flibanserin works on the brain.

The pill – which has yet to be certified for use in the UK – boosts brain chemicals thought to lead to sexual desire.


The drug is controversial. It has been rejected by America’s Food and Drug Administration twice on the grounds that it is not effective enough and has side-effects such as drowsiness.



Cindy Whitehead of maker Sprout says, ‘Men have a number of treatment options for sexual dysfunction. We haven’t yet gotten to one for women’s most common dysfunction.

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‘Up until now, the treatment paradigm for women with sexual dysfunction has essentially been: Let’s take a drug that works in men and let’s see if it works in women.”

‘We increase their desire by 53 percent. We decrease their distress by 29 percent, and then they doubled their number of satisfying sexual events.’