* Thin, transparent patch applied to abdomen twice a week.
* Patch slowly releases testosterone, a hormone that regulates sex drive, which is absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the skin.
* Effects take hold after about three weeks.
Posted on 09/22/2004 6:21:35 AM PDT by presidio9
Viagra-popping men soon will meet their match in patch-wearing women. The latest tool in the battle to rev up listless libidos is a little oval skin patch aimed at boosting a woman's sex drive.
Trial runs of the patch, called Intrinsa, have been so promising that the Food and Drug Administration put it on the fast track to approval yesterday.
"It works," said a 58-year-old Manhattan housewife who participated in a recent study of the Procter & Gamble invention.
The woman said that once she started using the patch, sex with her husband of 29 years went from once a month to twice a week. "He sure is smiling a lot," she said.
The patch was tested on women whose ovaries had been surgically removed, decreasing their hormone levels. The device releases testosterone.
Procter & Gamble officials said if all goes well, the patch could be available for doctors to prescribe sometime next year, and some think it may develop the same kind of buzz as Viagra.
Experts believe the patch eventually could go into wider use to help other postmenopausal women kick their sex drives into a higher gear.
Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, author of the book "What Your Mother Never Told You About Sex," said there is a big need for the drug.
"I've had women tell me, 'I'd rather be cleaning the toilet seat than have sex with my husband, who I love dearly,'" said Hutcherson. "They want to do something about it."
"Some women care so much about their lower libido that they'll talk about it every time you see them, even when you're talking about health issues that seem much more important," said Dr. Lila Nachtigall, an NYU Medical Center professor who treated 30 women in the study.
Unlike Viagra, which men take a few hours before intercourse, Intrinsa takes three to four weeks to start working.
But another woman who participated in the study said it's worth the wait. "It does get your juices flowing, so to speak," she said.
But gynecologists warned that testosterone, which can cause a woman's voice to deepen and body hair to grow, is not for everyone.
"When the drug becomes available, you'll find young women who shouldn't be taking it," Hutcherson said. "They should look for other reasons why they have a decrease in desire."
* Thin, transparent patch applied to abdomen twice a week.
* Patch slowly releases testosterone, a hormone that regulates sex drive, which is absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the skin.
* Effects take hold after about three weeks.
Spanish Flea in a patch? what a wonderful world we live in!
If she wanted to see him smiling more, she should have followed him to the neighbor's house, where he was making up for those 29 years of marital bliss.
Perhaps it's the difficulty in finding a suitor without a backwards baseball hat.......
So, Where's the imprpovement?
Let's see....hormone patch, nicotine patch, now a libido patch. I'm gonna look like a friggin' quilt by the time I hit 50!
Hmm I wonder if I could stick one of those on my girlfriends back without her noticing? Fun fun fun
Easy answer. It's called, "Marriage."
I don't know if I really want to read a story in which a 58 year old is talking about her sex drive.
Now if they can only invent a patch that stops husbands from snoring.................
Yes and we all know that's what a post-menopausal woman's waist looks like.
Ah, if only I could spread myself a little thinner...! Maybe I can.
"Effects take hold after about three weeks."
3 Weeks? If they mainlined it it would work faster. Of course they might start growing beards, but that wouldn't happen until later.
But it could help John Edwrds..........
Mine will.
Thats soo wrong its funny. My wife calls it the baby rolls!
That picture looks like she should have no problem with her Sex Drive ......
My wife tried this.
I think they have one already. Duct tape.
UGH.
One more time . . .
VIAGRA IS NOT AN APHRODESIAC. IT DOESN'T MAKE MEN HORNY. IT SIMPLY LETS ME GET A BONER. THATIS IT. JUST BECAUSE A MAN HAS A BONER DOESN'T MEAN HE'S HORNY. THE TWO ARE NOT LINKED!
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