"'I Want To Want To Have Sex'"

"Sprout claims Addyi will help some 16 million women who suffer from HSDD, but the company’s aggressive push to gain FDA approval raised concern among doctors and patient advocates. Addyi garnered notoriety in 2014, when Sprout sponsored an outspoken advocacy group called Even the Score, whose members accused the FDA of sexism for twice rejecting the drug in 2010 and 2013. The FDA says those rejections were legitimate because flibanserin had failed to show improvement over a placebo in an early trial and the agency wanted more tests to verify the drug’s safety.

At the same time the FDA heard impassioned pleas from feminists demanding treatments for sexual disorders that rival those available to men the agency was fending off criticism from groups such as the New View Campaign led by Leonore Tiefer. The New York University psychologist decries Addyi’s “medicalization of sex,” charging that Sprout's approach to low sexual desire as a medical — rather than emotional — issue is irresponsible.

Still others argued that women deserve far better than flibanserin, with its worrisome side effects such as dizziness, nausea and sleepiness. Although many medical experts agree that women have waited far too long for a treatment, others bristle at the suggestion that something so complex as sexual desire could be solved by a little pink pill.

IB Times interviewed women who are attempting to cope with symptoms of chronic low sexual desire, including a few who participated in early clinical trials of Addyi. Their stories illustrate the complexity of personal decision-making that millions of women like them will soon face with the introduction of Addyi, all to answer a single question: Should I try it?"
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