"Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease | |
nurse 68 User ID: 813212 Australia 11/09/2009 07:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are unbelievable arent they. How sick are they. Common sense would tell you most of us women have a low libido due to tiredness from working domestic work and running after kids and some due to normal horomonal changes witin our menstral cycle. Is this pill going to do the house work babysit the kids and pay the bills ????? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 807349 United States 11/09/2009 08:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't see any problem with a drug that causes women to want more sex. These should be required, especially after they say "I do", and I could give them to my girlfriend, and wifes sister too. The more squirters in the world the better I say. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 814597 United States 11/09/2009 08:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Any ladies here struggle with this disease? Quoting: Intruth"Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease By Terry J. Allen, In These Times. Posted November 3, 2009. The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help. You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function," according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article. The FDA’s evolving definition of FSD includes decreased desire or arousal, sexual pain and orgasm difficulties -- but only if the woman feels "personal distress" about it. So, convincing women to feel distress is a key component of the drug company strategy to market a multi-billion-dollar pill that will cure billions of women of what may not ail them. By promoting the belief that "normal" women have explosive sex all the time, BigPharma helped launch the disease. However, the FDA has yet to approve a treatment for women who fall short. Until then, they could try the Orgasmatron: a dial-a-delight spinal implant that rarely works -- and risks infection and paralysis. Or, for $60/month, pop LexaFem pills -- containing (how-could-it-not-work) "horny goat weed extract" in order to "feel like a real woman today." Its website promises, "You won’t ever feel unhappy again with LexaFem in your arsenal." But the big swinging dicks of global FSD marketing (and off-label marketing) are Pfizer -- whose stop-gap strategy is selling women Viagra based on the fact that it works for men, and Procter & Gamble (P&G), which, using the same logic, has put its money on testosterone. Viagra’s failure in trial after trial to work on women has not stopped doctors from writing 1.4 million off-label prescriptions. FSD is "a classic example of starting with some preconceived, and non-evidence based diagnostic categorization for women’s sexual dysfunctions, based on the male model," said John Bancroft, director of the Kinsey Institute, in an interview with BMJ (British Medical Journal). No drug follows the male model more literally than testosterone. Despite FDA refusal to approve P&G’s testosterone patch Intrinsa, U.S. doctors wrote 2 million off-label testosterone prescriptions in 2007. Like Pfizer’s little blue pill, the Intrinsa patch doesn’t really work for women. No wonder: Researchers don’t even know what constitutes a "normal" female testosterone level, and women with low levels of the hormone are as likely as those with high levels to be happy with their sex lives. And as filmmaker Liz Canner shows in her excellent new documentary Orgasm, Inc., (www.orgasminc.org), testosterone is usually teamed with estrogen, which increases risks for stroke, cancers and dementia. The companies and clinics that narrow the range of sexual normality to porn industry standards suffer their own disease. Symptoms include: a compulsion to concoct illnesses and then develop drugs to treat them, and vice versa. Either way, the syndrome is typically accompanied by a rash of conflicts of interest. A Pfizer survey in Malaysia found that Malay women are even more diseased than their American counterparts, with "69.6 percent experiencing some form of FSD," according to the Journal of Sexual Medicine, which also published an industry-supported supplement on FSD. Journal editor and urologist Irwin Goldstein denies a conflict of interest. "Science is science," he says. "It comes down to the bottom line. What the data shows, the data shows." Actually, no. Drug company-funded studies are more likely than independent studies to find the new drug superior to the old. Perhaps the bottom line Dr. Goldstein refers to is his income as a paid consultant for drug companies, including P&G and Pfizer. Goldstein established an FSD clinic with Dr. Jennifer Berman, who now heads a Beverly Hills clinic and appears on Oprah. As one of the health professionals on a 1998 panel that received financial sponsorship from eight pharmaceutical companies, she helped define female sexual dysfunction. Some 22 drug companies, including Pfizer, had financial ties to 18 of the 19 authors of that panel’s report, the BMJ revealed. "Maybe the best approach is not ineffective, over-hyped drugs with nasty side effects, but an end to disease mongering and a strong dose of comprehensive sex education," says filmmaker Canner. Her film hits female erogenous zones that pharmaceutical fixes can’t find: your brain and your funny bone.   [link to www.alternet.org] Yep. I have been hearing this crazy marketing bs on the radio in my area. The first time I heard it, I laughed out loud. The second time I heard it, I became angry that anything is up for grabs with big pharma. I was going to give an example, but it might have given big pharma more ideas. This is indeed a way to make $$$$$$. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 790363 United States 11/09/2009 09:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 813566 United States 11/09/2009 09:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unfortunatly I have it... my vagina has eaten holes in all my panties, and two pair of jeans. It knaws on the chairs and leave sucking like marks on peoples couches. I am so embarissed byt it and I have even heard my vagina making noices, and funny coughing sounds in movie theatures. I have tried gagging her with large Kotex, but when i get up a pile of shreaded cottn drops out of my skirt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 790363I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! lolololol |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 771308 United States 11/09/2009 09:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unfortunatly I have it... my vagina has eaten holes in all my panties, and two pair of jeans. It knaws on the chairs and leave sucking like marks on peoples couches. I am so embarissed byt it and I have even heard my vagina making noices, and funny coughing sounds in movie theatures. I have tried gagging her with large Kotex, but when i get up a pile of shreaded cottn drops out of my skirt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 790363I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! Wow. Just wow. Shut your filthy pie-hole. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 776591 United States 11/09/2009 09:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow love the alarmist doom tone in this article. I dont see what the problem here is, no one is being forced to take it. OP and other just need to realize that not everyone has their victorian puritanical views regarding sex. Has time passes and cultures come and go what will be viewed as sexually acceptable changes, you people just need to accept that things are changing. You dont have to be involved if you dont want to be. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 771079 United States 11/09/2009 09:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unfortunatly I have it... my vagina has eaten holes in all my panties, and two pair of jeans. It knaws on the chairs and leave sucking like marks on peoples couches. I am so embarissed byt it and I have even heard my vagina making noices, and funny coughing sounds in movie theatures. I have tried gagging her with large Kotex, but when i get up a pile of shreaded cottn drops out of my skirt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 813566I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! lolololol I was going to see how many guys here would "Offer their own cure" of RVS. But now I'm scared. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 814564 United Kingdom 11/09/2009 09:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unfortunatly I have it... my vagina has eaten holes in all my panties, and two pair of jeans. It knaws on the chairs and leave sucking like marks on peoples couches. I am so embarissed byt it and I have even heard my vagina making noices, and funny coughing sounds in movie theatures. I have tried gagging her with large Kotex, but when i get up a pile of shreaded cottn drops out of my skirt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 790363I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! |
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BadMoonRising User ID: 727864 United Kingdom 02/02/2010 03:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unfortunatly I have it... my vagina has eaten holes in all my panties, and two pair of jeans. It knaws on the chairs and leave sucking like marks on peoples couches. I am so embarissed byt it and I have even heard my vagina making noices, and funny coughing sounds in movie theatures. I have tried gagging her with large Kotex, but when i get up a pile of shreaded cottn drops out of my skirt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 771308I am glad they found a cure for this! It is called super glue! Wow. Just wow. Shut your filthy pie-hole. Comedy Gold! |
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