On the Media: The Little Pink Pill

Physical:

The little pink pill, flibanserin, can be prescribed for "anyone". This pill was just sold for a billion dollars, meaning that this pill is set out to be given to any women who feels the need to be sexually satisfied. 

Psychological:

Wait seriously? I mean I understand that I live in Utah and there aren't a lot of people that drink alcohol here, but with the statistic of 60% of the testers that used the pill being social drinkers, have they thought about the long term effects? Not to mention, listen closely about the placebo! Women who took the 'placebo' pill, vs. women who took flibanserin, there was only a .8% difference. So is .8% really worth it? Brooke brought up a good point about libido vs. boredom and the placebo test results displayed this information perfectly. There is a significant decrease in sexual activity after a few years of the relationship, but is it really because of a psychological problem that this pill is supposed to fix, or are we as women just getting bored of the same ol' stuff with our partner? I guess that's for each woman to decide for herself.

Social:

The role of the prescribed drug is easy: getting women to be sexually aroused. The audience for this drug: women who need to get more out of their sex lives. Yes this pill has had a lot of testing done, but like I mentioned before, the test results weren't all that great. So the pill helped 50-60% of women be sexually satisfied, but going back to the placebo test...is that percentage really all that accurate? Not in my opinion.

Culture:

Women who struggle with becoming sexually aroused are pumped, why wouldn't they be?! It's like Brooke mentioned, it's Viagra for women! It also comes with all the same crazy side effects of Viagra comes with except they get worse if you drink alcohol, ha! Sounds heavenly right?
Feminists, now they are not to be messed with about this subject. They obviously have a very strong opinion and don't seem to be changing it anytime soon. They think it's a drug to make women feel bad about themselves, but in the skewed survey, it mentioned that 43% of women struggle becoming aroused. So maybe some women honestly do have a psychological problem with their libido, but like Brooke mentioned, I'm still leaning towards the boredom in bed.

Temporal Context:

Just for fun I checked out the current comments on the blog and my first comment towards them in my head was 'did you even listen to the same talk show I just did?' Some of their comments made absolutely no sense, or they were making false claims about the side effects, taking the entire pill controversy personal. This is where all the drama on social media starts :) People don't listen to the factual statements, they only hear what they want to hear so they can post their negative opinions about it and get someone to argue with them. Annoying.

Regardless, the majority of women are excited about it, as well as the men are too, not to be sexist but what man wouldn't be? Heck, they can both take their little pills together and probably have a fabulous night until the side effects come along! 

My opinion is test it out, see where it goes, but my guess is that the majority of the women taking it will struggle because it's a daily pill and you can't drink alcohol while taking it. So they'll probably get bored with that and move on to the next thing to complain about. If it works for them, great! I'm happy someone smart invented something that's going to help improve their relationships and make them happier people! :) 

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