Women don’t need a pill for their bodies or their brains. They need sex education that is about their bodies, not male response.

And so do their physicians, apparently.

Antidepressants cause MAJOR sexual dysfunction. Everything from no desire to inability to climax for both sexes.

That’s one of the reasons I was blown away by the proponents of the Mother’s Act and their attempts to reel in “sad daddy’s” with a diagnosis of postpartum depression.

Picture that, young couples trying to get back into having sex after the birth of a child with both of them disinterested or unable to perform and not knowing it was due to the antidepressants they were given.

Oh that’s right though, now we can give them both the sex drugs to try to overcome that little problem.

Antidepressants are also known to cause sexual dysfunction,… yes?

I for one am so sick of seeing those commercials on TV that I literally turn the channel when they come on.

I am just as sick of watching the antidepressant commercials.

In fact, just last night, I thought I should really write letters to the programs that keep airing this trash and tell them I am going to quit watching their shows, no matter how much I might like the actually like the program.

In matching up the two classes of drugs, it’s a well known fact that antidepressants cause major sexual problems, along with a host of other drugs, so who knows what the underlying problems may be.

But one thing’s for sure, taking more drugs is not the answer.

In sitting here thinking, in the end, I don’t believe many women will be conned into buying the sex drugs. And the ones that do, will probably realize after the first prescription that pills couldn’t suddenly transform their mate into a mythical movie star to turn them on.

I remember back in the late 1970s when club owners got the bright idea to have male strip joints in Milwaukee for the enjoyment of women and they were a hit for about a month, with most women stopping in for one night to check it out.

No one is forcing people to take it– and if we believe that men can stand up to the forces of marketing successfully but women are so weak that they have to be protected, well, again, why isn’t *that* sexist?

There are legitimate objections to disease mongering and markets do produce pressure but I think that for the most part, people are pretty sensible. All the hype over the hyping of restless leg syndrome did was stigmatize people with that *genuine* disorder– no one ever produced any evidence that people who didn’t have a serious problem went out and got the drug and began thinking they had a condition that they didn’t really have.

Similarly, there are lots of complaints about overprescribing of antidepressants– but I have yet to hear from anyone who went racing for drugs when they felt sad for two weeks, nor do I see people who feel that their own depression was mild and unbothersome before they tried meds. *other people’s depression* might be mild and *they* might be overmedicated, but I’ve never heard anyone apply that to their own pain, which suggests that the problem is under-empathizing not overprescribing.

Now, for men who are eagerly waiting for this drug’s approval, hoping it will perk up their disinterested partners, they might want to browse through the book ‘Porn For Women’ - the book whose cover photo shows a man vacuuming the living room. Now THAT’S an erotic turn on…

Meanwhile, for more marketing perspectives, read “New ‘Desire Drug’ Claims That Sex Really IS All In Her Head” at The Ethical Nag. http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/15/boehringer-desire-drug/