Q & A: Shouldn’t There Should Be Blood With First Intercourse?

QUESTION: I had my first intercourse and I didn’t bleed. I know this is sometimes caused by sports or self-fingering, or by being fingered by a partner — but my problem is, I have never fingered myself or let other people finger me, and I barely do any sports. Maybe I’m simply born with a […]

So-Called “Desire Drug” Filbanserin Considered for FDA Approval

This Friday June 18, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be considering an application from Boehringer Ingelheim (B-I), a pharmaceutical company, for its drug filbanserin. What’s flibanserin? It’s a drug that B-I first developed as an anti-depressant but when it didn’t work as one, they explored other uses for it. Some time later, […]