Is "Doctor Bremelanotide" a Quack?

Hmmm...

While scouring the net for some new information about Bremelanotide, I spotted what initially appeared to be an interesting inside source... a blog post by someone at Adison University claiming to have spoken with a woman "working now on a hormone called bremelanotide pheromone (code name PT141)". (that blog entry)

But, as anyone who really knows about Bremelanotide is aware... it isn't a hormone.

And THEN "she" apparently described it as "a very, very poweful pheromone". But no, it isn't a pheromone either!

D'uh - everyone knows Bremelanotide is a cyclic hepta-peptide lactam analog of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) that activates the melanocortin receptors MC3-R and MC4-R in the central nervous system... right? :)

Well, that was from wikipedia, but even so, I even know that it isn't a hormone or a pheremone - so you'd think a woman 'working on' Bremelanotide would know what it was. Or at least what it wasn't.

Oh yeah, and when the 'reporter/journalist'... asked about gay men and lesbians, this woman apparently said she "thinks it will raise their sexual interest level but the research has not been done yet" (emphasis added by me)... Again, an answer anyone familiar with Bremelanotide would know.

If it works on rat brains and 'straight brains', it's certainly going to work the same way on 'gay brains'. LOL - although I am aware of limited studies that seem to show there *is* a part of the brain that differs between straight and gay (men?). Not sure of the details, and as well results may be fuddled because the gay brain autopsies were done on AIDs victims iirc... but I digress...

And the clincher of the article came at the end, when the woman 'expert' said: "the secret of its chemistry has already leaked out and labs in other nations have begun making and selling bremelanotide (PT-141) as a perfume “fragrance."

True enough some shady websites are promising to create and mail out Bremelanotide - but I have yet to see any confirmed reports that the stuff works (and many would involve injecting their mysterious concoction, not snorting it). But more importantly, Bremelanotide is NOT a fragrance or perfume or otherwise anything you SMELL. It is a nasal mist like 'Dristan" - you snort it up your nose... you don't just smell it.

Geez there is a lot of disinformation on the net. Personally I only believe what I read in the press reports and on the Palatin Technologies website itself, along with the periodic summaries on the "Bremelanotide Bulletin". Or wikipedia, although the info there is very limited and very "dry".

But I'm still looking forward to Bremelanotide's release and hope it comes soon! :-)

The Dangers of Bremelanotide?

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Aha! That's where I saw it! :)

Yeah, I mentioned seeing a post by a woman who had some concerns about Bremelanotide and it turned out I saw it listed under blog posts on the front page at www.bremolanotide.com .

And actually there are two links there to posts with concerns about women being given Bremelanotide unknowningly... and I found another one here just now.

Feministing wrote about Bremolanotide a few months ago in a post called "Women's Viagra":

"Is it going to convince you that whomever you are sleeping with IS good in bed or some shit or make you forget that you never wanted to sleep with that person in the first place? So many questions...."

Ha ! WEll I know from reading the "Bremelanotide Bulletin" that that's not going to probably happen.. well, maybe she *would* enjoy it more that she would without Bremelanotide, because it would make her 'turned on' in general. But it isn't going to make a woman sleep with a guy you wouldn't want to sleep with without it. You'd probably find other ways to relieve yourself than that! LOL

And the other comments I saw from (interestingly) other women...

Night Owl Forever wrote:

"...what if some doofy little 15-year-old boy who's desperate to get laid decides to spray girls in the face with this stuff? "

LOL - yeah, that *would* be bad. But again, reading up about the PT141 trials and more recent testing phases with Bremelanotide, it's obvious you would have to lay down a think *fog* of this stuff in an enclosed room and have the girl breathe very deeply to *maybe* make this work! :) Plus I'd imagine it would be expensive as hell (this stuff probably won't be cheap for even a small dose directly up the nose).

And like I said before, even if the doofy 15 year old kid could convince the girl to snort some bremelanotide it's not gonna force her to make out with him (Hmm.. I wonder how this stuff would work on someone in puberty - since it kinda makes adults feel the same way they did as a horny teenager - or a pre-pubescent? Not that it should/would be used for such a thing, but it'd be an interested thing to consider vis a vis how that part of the brain works and develops... but I digress...) :)

And the Booman Tribune said:

"If a woman has sex with a man that she wouldn't normally let within 10 feet of her just because he slipped her a pill that made her horny, is that consent..?"

Like the other posts, this one was done before last summer when not as much was commonly known as now (or people were jumping to conclusions without looking at the actual details). After reading the Brem Bulletin - which last post has a picture of the dispenser used by people testing Bremelanotide - we know it isn't a pill but "snorted" like dristan nasal mist or something.

And I don't think someone would have sex with someone else they aren't attracted to because Bremelanotide made them horny, and more than they NORMALLY would if they were feeling horny *without* Bremelanotide! :) If you're that weak willed, then you'll sleep with the guy anyways.

Another interesting thing about the above blog entries is reading the comments. Granted most were written a few month ago, but I doubt the general public knows much about Bremelanotide or PT 141 now either... and a LOT of people seem to think it will be some new scary type of "date rape drug" that will leave a woman completely without control of her arousal. But based on what I've seen, that won't happen... but who knows for sure how much of an influence it MIGHT be to some women who agree to take a shot of it - whether they know what they're taking or not?

Anyways, if you want to keep uptodate on the latest news about Bremelanotide, check out the "Bremelanotide Bulletin". There's only an email newsletter every month or so (now), but it's a good way to stay educated. Which it seems a lot of scared people need. :)