A diet pill that makes you sexy?
BBC:
Scientists are developing a pill which could boost women's libido and reduce their appetite.And I thought Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew was about human females. I wonder if he had some of these pills. The eyebrow raising I've seen without the pills. As for the "rump presentation and tail wagging" in that why high heels were invented?
The hormone-releasing pill has so far only been given to female monkeys and shrews who displayed more mating behaviour and ate less.
The team from the Medical Research Council's Human Reproduction Unit in Edinburgh believe a human version could be available within a decade.
But a psychologist said low-libido was usually caused by relationship issues.
Up to 40% of women are thought to experience a lack of sex drive at some point in their lives.
The Edinburgh team, led by Professor Robert Millar, have been looking at the properties Type 2 Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone.
When it was given to monkeys, they displayed mating behaviour such as tongue-flicking and eyebrow-raising to the males, while female shrews displayed their feelings via "rump presentation and tail wagging".
But the animals also ate around a third less food than they normally would.
Professor Millar hopes to achieve a similar rise in libido and fall in appetite in a pill for women.
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