flibanserin

The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs & Who Has Control, the informative (and infuriating) film from director Aisling Chin-Yee, centres on entrepreneur Cindy Eckert, founder of Sprout Pharmaceuticals and fierce advocate for women’s sexual health and gender equity. Outspoken and always dressed in bright pink, Eckert worked for years to get the drug flibanserin, which ameliorates low sex drive in women, approved by the FDA. Her journey is captured here. The hardest part to watch is coverage of the 2016 election and the events that follow —the rigging of the Supreme Court, the end of Roe v Wade, the 2024 election. The Pink Pill presents the bleak landscape of rights erosion for everyone except straight white males.