What Do Women Want? A Viagra Of Their Own

Posting Date: 06/13/2000

Original broadcast date: March 10, 2000

We hear a lot about Viagra and other methods of treating impotence in men, but very little about products to help female sexual dysfunctions ? well, this is about to change.

According to urologists and other experts, the term "frigidity" will soon be an archaic term as devices and drugs hit the market to address female sexual problems.

The New York Times calls what is happening the "Second Sexual Revolution," triggered largely by the success of Viagra, a Pfizer Co., sex-enhancing drug with sales hitting $1 billion a year. While Viagra is used predominantly by men, it is also being promoted as helping women achieve sexual pleasure.

Who needs an aphrodisiac when we?ll all soon be able to be medicated and wired for high-performance romance?

There?s one non-pharmacological device by St. Paul Minnesota-based UroMetrics that promises to treat female sexual dysfunction by stimulating blood flow in the clitoral area. The product ? called EROS-CTD (Clitoral Therapy Device) ? is available in several countries and is now before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval in the U.S.

The device is a little hard to describe but essentially it?s a small pump with a cup that stimulates blood flow to increase sensation, lubrication and orgasm. The company, which also makes instruments to evaluate male erectile dysfunction problems, say women report a high sexual satisfaction rate with EROS.

We should remember that before Viagra, men with erectile dysfunction often had to resort to injections prior to intercourse or a pump that stimulated blood flow and caused an erection to occur. There was once a urology conference during which a researcher injected himself with one of the first known erection-causing drugs and walked through the audience to show the successful result.

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