The other night while I was wasting time in front of the television I counted five commercials (it's obvious I watch way too much TV) in a two hour period for erectile dysfunction drugs.
It was a HEY GUYS YOU CAN GET IT ON! advertisement night.
You know what commercials I dn't see?
The HEY LADIES PEP UP THAT SEX DRIVE! ones.
There's obviously an inequality in the amount of research done to help give a guy some wood versus the amount of support for women whose sex drive is compromised from various hormone related issues.
Why is this?
A preponderance of men in the pharmaceutical research industry?
The fact that there's some serious money to made by making certain men can't get it up definitely factors, I'm sure.
What would the world be without an erect penis? It must be fixed! At least that's the message the Viagra and Cyalis people want you to believe.
I'm not bashing the EDS issue as invalid or unworthy of research or pharmaceuticals, because you know, sex is natural, sex is fun, but let's face it, the research and results here is decidely ONE SIDED. If I guy can't get a boner with regularity, does this diminish the male self-esteem to such an extent that it warrants gobs of research money? Maybe I'm underestimating the lack of an erection, since my plumbing is of the female type, but I bet dollar to donuts if you asked some guy with cancer or another life threatening disease, he'd do withouth the hard on for some research funds that could give him a cure. And if you ask any of the women who've come through the other side of menopause about their sex drive, they might just be interested in a some extra research thrown to their corner of the sexual dysfuntion lab.
Thanks to all the hyper-advertising about meds to correct erective dysfunctin syndrome, just about everyone with access to TV and the internet knows about EDS. I'd be interested to know how many people know what HDSS is and what is out there.
I've recently seen the occassional commercial for Zestra and Trojan's line of personal massagers but those usually air later at night on cable channels and certainly not during prime time like the Viagra and Cyalis commercials.
Last year the FDA ditched a medication that supposedly could help as inconclusive but at some point approved a vaccum style apparatus that pulled blood to the clitoris. Uh, folks, not the same as penis. Not at all.
How about a little more attention to the female side of things?
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