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November 30, 2005
Sex drive in a nasal spray
Entering Phase 3 clinical trials now is PT-141, a powerful libido-enhancing drug which works on both men and women. There's a great article in New York Metro about it which explains how it works, how well it works, and also poses some interesting philosophical questions.
My main question, though, is how do I sign up for these clinical trials? Make me your lab rat, baby. I'll even wear whiskers and a tail if I can get some of this stuff.
Think again, then, about those moments when your sex drive stalled and your mind filled with anxieties that you ultimately managed to talk yourself out of. Now imagine that you failed, in the end, to talk away the anxieties; imagine you instead found yourself obliged to listen to them, and that they told you things about yourself, your life, that you hadn’t wanted to hear but finally had to acknowledge were true. Imagine that as a result of all this listening, you understood at last that you had to, for instance, leave your husband, your wife, the man or woman you’d first slept with on that third or fourth date, the one full of rich food, hard liquor, etc.; and that now that you thought about it, the voice inside you that night that had wanted you home watching television had sounded a lot like the one now telling you to leave your marriage, and that, all things considered, you probably should have paid more attention to it then.Now imagine the whole story all over again, except that at the very moment these anxious voices start to pipe up, you find yourself with an inhaler of PT-141 and a decision to make: You can either take your sexual dissatisfaction seriously and learn from it, or you can take a hit of PT-141 and write off your anxieties as nothing more than fallout from the mild case of sexual-desire disorder the drug will soon have under control. Which do you choose? Self-knowledge or self-content? The awful truth or the convenient fiction?
Take your time.
Posted by ray at November 30, 2005 10:14 AM | Permalink
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Um.
Gimmee?
Posted by: Elvis at November 30, 2005 10:24 AM
Hooray! Just what the world needs. Something that makes us even more focused on sex and instant gratification.
Posted by: Henrik at November 30, 2005 11:23 AM
Uh-oh. Forgot about that.
Cassidy just saw "Bladerunner" and now she wants to read the book. Maybe I should re-read it first.
Posted by: Ray at November 30, 2005 11:54 AM
Are you thinking what I am, Pinky?
Posted by: whirlbrain at November 30, 2005 8:26 PM
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(I'm not saying anything because I'm dancing)
Posted by: Darkneuro at November 30, 2005 11:00 PM
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