Sexual Dysfunction Drug For Women, Chlamydia Screenings, And Oral Contraceptive News

This Week In Sex News: Oral Contraceptives, Chlamydia Screenings, And Viagra For Girls

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: sex
6:30AM, Tuesday April 21st 2009

Researchers from Texas A&M University have found that women who do resistance exercises and take oral contraceptives don’t seem to gain as much lean muscle as those who aren’t on the Pill. [Medical News Today]—This could explain why my arms aren’t exactly ripped.

If you weren’t planning on heeding our advice about getting screened for STDs regularly, the CDC reports that fewer than half of at-risk women in the U.S. are getting screening for chlamydia. While 47 percent is a lot better than 25 percent, it’s not enough. Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD in the U.S. [Reuters]

Male sexual dysfunction drugs might help women with comparable problems. Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia tested Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis on female rats and found they helped with sexual dysfunction. [MSNBC]—But what works on rats doesn’t necessarily work on humans, so don’t pop any of your boyfriends pills just yet.

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Cherished_One
wrote on April 21 2009 @ 07:14 am: [report]

Well my favorite aunt told me over a quaint breakfast that she had popped a blue pill…and it had her feeling some type of way. Such a way that she and my uncle “went at it” for a good 4 hours. On the normal they get in a good 20 minutes. Oh did I mentions she’s 55 and my uncle is 66?

VsegdaOdna
wrote on April 21 2009 @ 10:23 am: [report]

The BC/muscle story explains quite a bit! Towards the end of my deployment last year I stopped using my BC patches for a couple of months. During that time, I noticed an extreme increase in muscle tone coming from my gym work outs compared to before. Something to think about for the future. Hmm…

Kati-Anne
wrote on April 21 2009 @ 03:06 pm: [report]

I thought that the bc/muscle building thing was a no-brainer. The synthetic female hormones in the pill act as an anti-androgen (inhibit the production of the male sex-hormone testosterone) and testosterone is a major player in the building of muscles.
I think it’s lame how much medicine still doesn’t know about the effects the birth control pill has on the human body when there are so many of us on it.

develange
wrote on April 21 2009 @ 06:53 pm: [report]

@ kati-anne: yeah, GREAT. Over the past two years alone there have been so many findings about more sketchy side effects of BC.

Medicine still portrays female anatomy and health as this big mystery!

sportzriter13
wrote on April 23 2009 @ 12:42 pm: [report]

@ kati-anne and develange; I see your point(s), though back when it was introduced in the 60’s, the dosage(s)for the pill were much higher then they are now (leading to worse side-effects). I’m not saying there are things that should be better explained, but we have already come a long way.
—
Thank God for BC!
From the summer before 5th grade to my junior year of HS (finally convinced my mother and former doc that I really did need it) I would be in so much pain from my period. Sometimes it’d be so bad I’d miss school (or leave early), and lie in bed trying not to cry. I no longer get surprised by my period, and when it happens I’m not incapacitated. If that means I won’t get to be a bodybuilder (not something I’m really into, anyway) then so be it.

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