![]() At any given moment, Claire would have three or four lovers stashed away. Before Claire got married 20 years ago, she prided herself on her libertine ways. But what about the rest of us?Ĭlaire, a 46-year-old writer from Detroit, is a case in point. Such drugs may be great for prisoners, priests, and recovering nymphomaniacs. At $2.6 billion, Prozac, which costs about $90 a month, has the third-best annual sales of any pharmaceutical sold in the United States, according to market research firm IMS Health. SSRIs are the current drugs of choice for treating depression, and the most popular still is Prozac. ![]() But SSRIs are so awesomely effective that, for most people who take them, the pleasures of sex take a back seat to a sense of calm and serenity that the drugs create. The antidepressant she is taking is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and, like other drugs in the same family ( Prozac, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, and Celexa), they clobber sex drive in up to 60% of those who take them. I'm starting to think I'm going to have to fake it, and I don't want to do that, but I don't really know what else to do."Īpril is not alone. "I'm afraid my partner will ask me to go off the Zoloft, but I feel too good on it. That never happened to me before," says tall, willowy April who, like others in this story, has been given a pseudonym.Īpril's drug-induced frigidity is causing her enough anxiety to consider taking an additional drug to relax her. But when I have intercourse, it takes way longer for me to have an orgasm, or I don't have one at all. "My sex drive is still there and the arousal is the same. April's calmer and much less anxious - although when she pauses to think about it, the 50-milligram blue tablet she takes every morning seems to be causing her all kinds of anxiety. ![]() J- My friend April, a 24-year-old graduate student from Pittsburgh, began taking the popular antidepressant Zoloft in February, and says the drug is fabulous. ![]()
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