I don't think I understand the point of the wrist patch. Maybe it's applicable for perimenopause and beyond? That would be cool. But I am not getting the scents (sorry - dumb joke) that perimenopausal and menopausal women are the targeted sniffers here. For gals who can't seem to get it up, so to speak, for their hubbies, how about some good old-fashioned nipple and clitoral stimulation from said hubbies? (And good old-fashioned household power-sharing is proven to work as well.) I must be missing something.

Oh baby I'm on the tablet, I swear.

That's what I was missing. The new Frigidity. Possibly "millions of women" have it. Well, maybe. In my house it's called utter physical exhaustion. My husband has it sometimes too.

In any case, there probably are some women out there who would like to be more aroused more often - wouldn't something like this help a lot of people stay on their Prozac? Great! - but I would hardly call this "scientific sex research." It is just an example of someone trying to make money on perfume.

The election is over. Let's get on with the pussy stories!

because if it doesn't, the fundamental dynamic of male female relationships can't change too much.

Basically, they're trying to create a legal alternative to provide what pot already provides for lots of women. If it stimulates some of the same brain chemicals (dopamine et.al.) then it should work just fine, and a lot better than Chanel.

Why not introduce a patch that reduces men's testosterone levels? Better yet, if this new male contraceptive pill does just that, we won't have to worry about men who want it when their partners don't. They can just take the pill.

Didn't a recent study give some creedence to the idea that women get aroused as easily as men even if this doesn't lead them to desire to actually have sex? If this is true (I'm no scientist so I don't know), it looks like women don't need this patch as the reason for the apparent disparity in male and female libido has more to do with the way women's sexuality is repressed and circumscribed by society than it has to do with biological difference. If men can get effective contraception they control and a decrease in libido that puts them more in balance with their partners, I love the idea of the male pill even more.

to the object of the (former)desire. I actually think that this is what happens in a lot of relationships, the woman (once the sexual intensity cools a little)wants the man to be bonded with her in the way that a bigger, stronger, dominant intense woman best friend would be. The problem is that men are not women.

most men are not perfect. most circumstances are not perfect.

therein lies much of the problem.

couple this with feminism's tired lessons to women about how all men are bad and evil and therefore women should fear and hate them, and "Hussy, we have a problem"

(I know... very bad pun- in several ways)

you want a solution to tired women (and men)? less work, more leisure time.

Easy as that.