Several different companies are vying to bring their own female-sexual-desire drug to market first. (This has garnered cries of sexism from doctors like Brotto.) However, the landscape is changing, and a female version of Viagra could reach consumers within the next two years. While there are already at least five sexual dysfunction medications available to men, including Pfizer’s 1.8-billion-dollar blockbuster drug Viagra (approved in Canada 15 years ago), pharmaceutical treatments for women are lagging behind. But for others, low sexual desire haunts their relationships.Ī 2005 study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that 35 to 40 percent of Canadian women suffer from low libido, but only 10 to 12 percent of them are worried enough to do something about it, says Lori Brotto, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and a Vancouver psychologist who specializes in female sexual arousal and dysfunction. For some women the dry spell is short-ending when they emerge from the fog of new motherhood. It’s not unheard of for girlfriends in mommy groups to trade tips like avoiding eye contact and feigning sleep. Message boards and mothers’ groups are filled with women talking about their lacklustre sex lives. “I know he wishes I would make the first move once in a while.” She knows her low sex drive is putting a strain on their 15-year relationship.
Sex becomes just another thing on my to-do list,” she says. “He wants to have sex more often, but I think sleep is more important. She and her husband hit the sheets about once or twice a month, she guesses, but it’s always at his initiation. Since she had her second child seven years ago, Cross says she just isn’t as interested in sex. But he knew what that meant and rolled over.” “Last time, I let out a big sigh, and said, ‘Oh God,’ out loud. Cross, a mother of two, knows exactly what this signals-and she dreads it. It’s a familiar move for Kathy Cross:* her husband reaches over in bed and begins to give her a massage.
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