Bremelanotide in ABC Nightline Article Online

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There's an article on the ABC News website about Bremelanotide. It's the page for their Nightline show, but I watch it sometimes and never saw it mentioned anywhere - hopefully the website article got posted first and the show will air sometime soon...

I just wrote a post on the ABC forum asking that question, so hopefully someone will answer and I can post the info here...

The article itself isn't really anything too new for me (since, like I probably mentioned before, I subscribe to the "Bremelanotide Bulletin") but there WAS a section that raised my hackles!

First they say about Bremelanotide:

If approved, it would be the first drug sold in the United States to specifically target lack of sexual desire in women. It's for those experiencing serious sexual problems — women who've gone through menopause or had a hysterectomy, for instance, and lost desire as a result.

Which is great! Sure it works on the guys too, and even seems to work on many men who don't get results from Viagra (and some test subjects say it works better than viagra), but the REALLY revolutionary thing about Bremelanotide is that it works on women... especially helpful for those experiencing FSD.

Oh, and I really liked this part.. :)

"Some of the women put it in colorful language that I'm not comfortable using on television," Perelman told ABC News' "Nightline."

Ha!

But then I see THIS...

But bremelanotide likely will encounter tough resistance on its way to receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration. One concern is abuse. Some young partyers have been known to mix Viagra with Ecstasy for recreational use.

Well yeah, but there are MANY drugs that get abused by recreational drug users/abusers, but they don't stop THOSE drugs from being sold. For that matter, kids are getting high on cough syrup that you don't even need a prescription for, and they're still on the store and pharmacy shelves...

And a sexual psychologist Leonore Tiefer (associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University's School of Medicine) said

"Certainly when the thing is first approved, I think it will be widely misused."

Apparently in 2004, she helped block FDA approval for the hormone patch Intrinsa, which was being touted as the female Viagra.

It doesn't say why she helped blog its approval... maybe she was afraid body builders would be using it to get more testosterone?

Then she said: "...women, couples, will somehow feel that if arousal, orgasm, desire, is not a regular routine, every day, every week, womb-to-tomb kind of thing that there is something wrong with you."

Again - so what?!

That hasn't stopped the women's magazines from printing photos on their covers of women with bodies that NO one can achieve (even the women themselves, since the magazines use photoshop and lighting along with makeup and every other trick in the book to create those pictures).

There will always be people who are insecure or otherwise fearing they don't live up to the ultimate benchmark - but should women suffering from FSD, and literally praying they'll some day be able to enjoy intimacy with their partner again, have to suffer further because of drug abusers and people who are too insecure to enjoy having sex naturally if they don't otherwise need some help along the way..?

Fortunately the CEO of Palatin Technologies (whose speech at a recent conference was summarized in the last newsletter post in that Bremelanotide Bulletin) tried to set them straight by stating;

"If women do go in with that message, their physician should clearly tell them that this is not what this is for," said Palatin CEO Spana. "It's for women who feel a real lack of desire, real lack of ability to get aroused."

And the Concordia Bremelanotide tester (Pfaus) also added:

"But I think that if the drug is available for people who actually have true desire disorders that are defined by a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, then we're talking about a different group of people."

Exactly! It's ironic that two men are supporting treatment for Female Sexual Disorder, and a woman appears to be getting ready to ban its release !!

Granted the men qoted have a vested interest in its release, although less so Pfaus since he just tested it on a bunch of subsequently horny rats, but there are a LOT of women who could really benefit from Bremelanotide.

Make it available only with a prescription and you solve most of any perceived problems you can come up with. Sure there will be recreational use, just like Viagra... and morphine... and marijuana (which is prescribed for glaucoma and to some cancer patients to improve appetites), but they should make genuine suffers continue to suffer because of that.

So an interesting article (and hope I get to see the television version) but it also revealed at least one "shot across the bow" from someone or some movement intent on preventing FDA approval for Bremelanotide!

"Mind your own bees wax" is what I say! :)