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A new "love drug" called PT-141 could be as good for both women and men than Viagra is for men. Just a snort from a nasal inhaler containing the new hormone is enough to arouse powerful passion in both women and men, say Canadian scientists.
Experts say the drug, undergoing final Phase III trials before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration review, will be the boon to women with reduced sexual desire syndrome that Viagara was for men.
"The bottom line is that women have been really shortchanged," said Laura Berman, Ph.D., author of The Passion Prescription: Ten Weeks to Your Best Sex - Ever! "Hopefully, this will be another option for women with physiologically based sexual dysfunction."
At present, the major options for women with reduced desire are counseling and sexual therapy. Viagra has been tested but with inconclusive results. "There's nothing in the arsenal now to treat female sexual dysfunction," Jim Pfaus, a researcher at Concordia University in Montreal who is working on PT-141, told the BBC. "That's one of the things that's really promising about this drug."
PT-141 is a copy of the hormone that stimulates melanocyte-receptors in the brain. Those receptors play a role in sexual arousal. The effect was first discovered during research of a sun-tanning drug, when some of the male volunteers developed unexpected erections. Scientists chemically modified the tanning drug to increase its sexual effects, learning along the way that it affected women's lust also.
Viagra affects the circulatory system, permitting impotent men to have erections. PT141 works completely differently. "It affects the central nervous system," said Berman. "It affects desire."
In lab trials, female rats exposed to PT-141 immediately began "flirting" with male rats for sex. Their postures and movements left no doubt in the male rats' minds that they were in the mood. Women who took part in trials told New York magazine that within 15 minutes or less they felt a "tingling and a throbbing" along with "a strong desire to have sex."
Men said a snort of PT-141 made them feel "younger and more energetic" as well as sexually interested and aroused. "You're ready to take your pants off and go," one participant said. Author Julian Dibbell described PT-141 as "a drug that makes you not only able to but eager to."
PT-141 is being developed by Palatin Technologies, a New Jersey-based drugmaker. The company expects the drug to be approved for sale perhaps by 2008 in the United States.