Things that kills sex drive in women – Women with low libido could soon get a “little pill” of their own that aims to improve their sex life. Last week, an expert panel voted to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approve a drug called flibanserin, which is touted as boosting women’s desire for sex.
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If the FDA decides the drug is safe and effective, it could soon find its way into bedrooms across the United States.
Unlike Viagra, which causes more blood to flow to a man’s penis, flibanserin doesn’t just aim to improve a woman’s physical readiness for sex. Instead, the drug purportedly works by amping up the brain’s levels of dopamine and serotonin — two chemicals known to induce sex-related feelings, such as motivation, appetite and desire.
However, sexual desire is complicated, and some experts aren’t sure that a pill is really the cure for an ailing female mojo.
“I’m skeptical [about flibanserin] as both a professional and as a woman,” said Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler, a urologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “The libido in both men and women is very complex, and it’s not going to be remedied with a pill.”
There are lots of things that can quell a woman’s desire to have sex, Kavaler told Live Science. These range from psychological factors, such as her self-esteem and mental health, to physical factors, such as her hormone levels and how well she’s sleeping, Kavaler said.
In fact, researchers have conducted dozens of studies exploring the many reasons why a woman might not feel like having sex. Here are five reasons that women may not be in the mood:
1. She’s in pain.
Several studies have explored the relationship between sex and pain in women. One study, published in 2009 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, looked at women with dyspareunia — a condition that results in recurrent genital pain during intercourse and that’s estimated to affect 8 to 21 percent of women worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The study found that women with dyspareunia have thoughts about pain that can be easily activated, said Lea Thaler, a researcher at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who led the study. Shortly after that study’s publication, Thaler told Live Science in an interview that women with the condition tend to be “hypervigilant about” (or constantly on the lookout for) pain during sex.
Although Thaler’s study didn’t focus on how this increased vigilance about pain may affect a woman’s desire to have sex, other studies have explored the relationship between pain and libido. A 2014 study published in The Journal of Neuroscience found that female mice that are in pain are less motivated to have sex than female mice that are not in pain. The study also found that the same thing is not true for male mice, which were willing to copulate even when in pain. [The 10 Most Surprising Sex Statistics]
The findings of this study could provide clues about how libido works in women, according to the researchers, who told Live Science that their findings could help scientists understand why women with chronic pain often experience a decreased desire to have sex.
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