BlyssPluss has arrived: a viagra that works on women and goes up your nose

In Margaret Atwood's recent postapocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake, an evil genius engineers a destructive virus into a wildly popular new combination aphrodisiac-and-contraceptive called BlyssPluss.

In what sounds like another case of life imitating scifi, the aphrodisiac part of it seems to be in the works. Coverage in the Guardian is full of rich quotes like this one:

Every time the penis of a subject rat emerged, observers marked down the event in a notebook. The subjects, all 'naive' adults whose last contact with a female was on the day their mothers weaned them, seemed to have had, if anything, slightly less curiosity about their spontaneously generated erections than the researchers. The typical reaction: 'He notices it's there, and he grooms it to detumescence,' says Annette Shadiack, Palatin's executive director of pre-clinical development. 'And then it happens again.'

Grooming it to detumescence? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

The Guardian does a surprisingly good job of covering the science, as well as getting to heart of the matter: this new drug, called PT-141, doesn't just cause arousal, it makes you really, really horny as well. And everyone's going to love it.

Women, according to one set of results, feel 'genital warmth, tingling and throbbing', not to mention 'a strong desire to have sex'.

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Fast-acting and long-lasting, packaged in an easily concealed, single-use nasal inhaler, unaffected by food or alcohol consumption, PT-141 seems bound to take its place alongside cocaine, poppers and alcohol in the pantheon of club drugs.

Exactly. If it's that good, everyone's going to want to try it. How long before some enterprising basement chemist is able to cook up a batch?

I say cut to the chase and just sell it OTC.