OMG, The last taboo.

How many last taboo's are there?

A rough estimate is there is perhaps roughly, at least a hundred Taboo subjects, every one of them claiming to be "THE LAST TABOO."

>Endocrinologist Dr Roisin Worsley said the shortage wasn't being taken seriously by authorities and that this was because it's a female issue.

This is a subjective statement and considering that there has been shortages of many other medications, such as fentanyl, dilantin and a few others, the manufacture and supply problem is much wider issue than 'female issues'.

Life in a fearful avoidant relationship with a patch! Wow…some girls are lucky!

Some blokes aren't so lucky though, (re; extra side effects of alternate patch).
Maybe at the heart of it, this is the true reason for some men fleeing into the arms of an awaiting male; homosexuality; the unproductive alternative to surviving female menopause.

This is one space that should never ever be contested!

HRT should be something the informed patient ought decide! Regardless of the incredibly slight, theoretical chance of cancer!

Be they a female needing a patch to protect her sanity and relationship, or a bloke needing testosterone to stop serious and debilitating muscle wasting or disfiguringmale syndrome? End of story!

Viagra?

Why bother if she's never ever in the mood, due to low/reduced female hormone levels?

And if you think it stops there? Think again, given it may not just be family relationships at risk but lifetime, [ I'm just so tired, can't concentrate Jill, so sorry,] careers as well!?

Incidentally, heard this hormone related story about a Lady Doctor, researching male sex drive, testing testosterone on herself until she carried the same testosterone load as the average 19 year old male.

The story goes after the first monthly injection, the smile couldn't be wiped off hubby's lips. With the second injection at the second month interval, resulting in a harried and harassed husband scuttling about the farm as if he was being stalked by a rabid sex addict?

With that being the state of play until the third month and third and final injection and testosterone levels of the average 19 year old male?

At which point the wife could be seen trotting around and about with some urgency, cooing like a dove, sweetie, honeypie, where are you sugar? I could go again and etc.

With hubby apparently taking to the roof and pulling the ladder up after him?

Talk about being on the horns of a dilemma? And the horny pun was intended. Some men have all the luck.

Q: What makes a hormone?
A: When you don't pay her. Boom boom
Alan B.

Graham, please! Come on mate, two such meaningless consecutive items from a couple of lady academics, who obviously have nothing worth writing about in their empty heads, but are going to write any way, is not good enough. One has to wonder how these ladies manage to perambulate with the incredibly large chips they are carrying on their shoulders.

Much more of this rubbish will cost you audience big time. We have all heard about slow news days, but this is ridiculous. Better none than this garbage.

Hey Evelyn, do you and your female friend normally go nuts without your viagra?
That seems kind of strange.

The amount spent on breast cancer compared to prostate cancer is staggering. And yet we still get Dr Evelyn as a privileged white feminist complaining about inequality. Is this victmhood mentality really required to get top paying uni jobs? I thought so.

The escalating hysteria of this article is beyond belief.

Artificially defying nature is not a "right".

Drugs made by drug companies. Drug companies are companies. Companies are there to make money.

Look, this is pretty simple stuff: the reason that there is such a reliable supply of sildenafil and similar PDE5 inhibitors like tadalafil & vardenafil is because there is a reliable demand for them, and thus a reliable source of revenue.

You just have to follow the money.

Yes, erectile dysfunction gets a lot more press than the almost 'invisible' problem of vaginal dystrophy, which afflicts about 1 in 4 post-menopausal women. It's an unhappy condition that makes intercourse excruciatingly painful, because the walls of the vagina become thinned and the nerves exposed - causing, not just horrendous pain, but also bleeding.

However, it is successfully treated with HRT. Most women on HRT are there because of vaginal dystrophy. Also, women on HRT choose to gamble on the slightly increased risk of reproductive cancers - ovarian, cervical and breast cancer.

I don't know much about oestrogen patch shortages, but there are other HRT medications available - i.e. hormonal pessaries.

So ... the author does have a point about society's shyness on discussing the types of women's sexual dysfunction that comes with age, while at the same time, being fairly relaxed and comfortable about discussing equivalent male sexual dysfunction.

But it's unhelpful to turn it into a gender wars issue. It's more an issue of public information.

Another female "we are special" demanding everyone drop everything and be at their beck and call. Guess what, "you go girl" you're empowered, do it yourself; males don't care anymore.