So you are a reader of this site, and someone tells you they have a pill which boosts women’s dopamine levels. Theoretically, will they get hornier, or less horny? Or less scientifically, more rabbity, or less rabbity?
Federal health officials on Tuesday approved the first-ever prescription drug intended to treat women suffering from a lack of sexual desire, ending a vigorous debate over the drug’s fate…
Addyi, known generically as flibanserin, acts on brain chemicals associated with mood and appetite, similar to antidepressant drugs. In fact, it was originally studied as a treatment for depression before being repurposed into a libido drug. It’s not entirely clear why the drug increases sexual desire but researchers point to its ability to increase dopamine
Some say it doesn’t work on most people, which sounds about right for this type of manipulation. The body is amazingly resistant to shifting neurological and endocrine function over the long term in unnatural fashions. I would bet though that if you dropped these low-sex drive women on a sailboat in Tahiti, with delicious food, heavenly weather, fame, and tons of cash, they would find a sudden drive to engage in reproductive behaviors. That is not accidental – they would be biologically exploiting favorable conditions to reproduce.
The little pink pill also sounds about right for the bullshit society we presently live in. Idiots will take a pill that doesn’t work, enjoy a placebo effect, swear by it, and we will all pay the company money for it because feminists who want to appear hip will demand it be covered by the insurance we pay for.
Apocalypse cometh™
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Sure, jack with people’s dopamine levels artificially. That’s worked out so well for all the other drugs that influence the dopamine cycle, like heroin and cocaine.