The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has approved Addyi, the so-called ‘Female Viagra’.

Anyone who has watched Liz Canner’s excellent documentary Orgasm, Inc. will know that the pursuit of an equivalent to the multi-billion dollar Viagra industry for women has long been the holy grail of pharmaceuticals.

To give it its due, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fended off  various gels, electrodes, pills and patches with uncertain benefits and all-too-certain side effects for years, but now the time has arrived: something has finally been approved – albeit by a split vote – 18/6.