Testosterone Restores Sex Drive in Postmenopausal Women

Maybe, as suggested in a comment to this story, it’s a relief for some older women not to be hounded by a sex partner. Geezer is not in a position to make that call. But Dr. Susan R. Davis, a professor of women’s health at Monash University in Australia, seems to believe many women would prefer keep the fire burning. Davis is the lead author of a study indicating that, as she put it: "Testosterone administered by a skin patch significantly improves sexual well-being in postmenopausal women."
The new study, which was paid for by Proctor & Gamble, the manufacturer of the testosterone patch, Intrinsa, involved more than 800 postmenopausal women, who reported low sexual desire.The women were randomly assigned to one of three groups:
treatment with a patch that delivered 300 micrograms of testosterone
daily, treatment with a patch that delivered 150 micrograms of
testosterone daily, or a placebo patch. After 24 weeks, women in the 300 microgram group reported an average
of 2.1 satisfying sexual episodes during a four-week period, compared
to 1.2 sexually satisfying episodes for those on the lower dose, and
just 0.7 satisfying episodes for women on the placebo.
Read more about it in US News and World Report, or read and abstract from the New England Journal of Medicine.