Asexual awareness committee deadline looms
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 04:48
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No one has decided on a date for Asexual Awareness Week yet, but the deadline to join the committee looms. Anyone who wishes to participate in the planning events needs to e-mail Sara Beth Brooks by March 13.
Asexual Awareness Week occurs in the fall. The planning committee will work throughout the rest of the year to designing events and plan activities. Sara Beth Brooks, the event organizer, plans to hold weekly conference calls via Skype to organize the events. Further details about the initial post can be found here.
Asexual sexologist needs 100 volunteers
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- Published on Saturday, 05 March 2011 19:51
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The Asexual Sexologist, who Asexual News recently interviewed, is conducting a new survery to help determine the accuracy of a survey handed out by the college she attends and other users that forces users to select between homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual.
Toronto Sun columnist questions need for Female Sexual Dysfunction drug race
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 08:23
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The Sex Files column of the Toronto Sun recently questioned the reality of Female Sexual Dysfunction. Pharmaceutical companies raced to create a female equivalent of Viagra after Pfizer released the drug. Pfizer entered into a multi-billion dollar market. Drug companies, hoping to capitalize on the first Viagra's success have attempted to create a female equivalent. Biosante's gel product Lbigel and Apricus's Femprox are leading contenders in the race for a female sexual dysfunction drug.
Sexytypewriter's column questions whether the problem the drug companies want to solve is physical or psychological and only hints slightly that the drug companies may have created a problem in order to solve a proposed solution. "Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors”, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors of the article, two of whom had ties to Pfizer, according to the Sun, estimated the condition occurred in 43% of women between the ages of 18 and 59.
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Biosante hopes to raise $23.8 million for Libigel development
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- Published on Saturday, 05 March 2011 12:48
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The Pharmaceutical manufacturer, Biosante, raised $28.3 million to continue the development of Libigel. Libigel is a low-dose testosterone cream. The direct stock offering helped the company raise the needed amount to continue Phase III trials of the drug.
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America's Sexuality Day
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2011 04:20
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March 3rd marks America’s Sexuality Day. The organizers event claim the celebration occurs on the anniversary of the day sex was censored. The organizers chose to celebrate the day Congress agreed to pass the Comstock act in 1873.
According to PBS.org, the Comstock bill made it illegal to pass or disseminate birth control along state lines. Margaret Senger challenged portions of the law in 1916 and helped with another court case that allowed physicians to mail contraceptives across state laws in 1936.