Chinese women queue up to test orgasm medication

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese women are queing up to test a new medicine that aims to help them achieve orgasm, in another example of the more open attitudes to sex being adopted in a traditionally conservative country.

More than 200 female volunteers had registered by the end of August to act as guinea pigs for clinical testing by the Beijing University No.1 Hospital of the "female viagra" drug, the Beijing Morning Post said Wednesday.

Organisers and doctors said they were surprised by the number.

"More independent and outspoken Chinese women are paying attention to the quality of their sexual life, a long-time taboo in Chinese society," said Zhang Miao, the doctor in charge of the tests.

"There should be no problem to recruit 400 volunteers considering the increasing popularity of our test," said Zhang.

All test-takers will report their experiences with the medicine in at least four face-to-face interviews with doctors and researchers. The women will give a final evaluation after the two-month trial.

Volunteers range from women in their early 20s to a 63-year-old housewife -- but most are middle-aged career women.

After generations of silence on a subject considered taboo until recently, China is increasingly adopting a more open attitude towards sex.

Last week China's Institute of Sexology and the Chinese Medical Association launched the country's first-ever nationwide survey on female sexual experiences.

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