Have you heard the news? Viagra is 10 years old today, there are 30 million men taking it, and Pfizer has made 1.5 billion dollars selling it. Wow.

Now Pfizer announces it is developing pink Viagra for women. Isn’t that cute. (Boy Viagra is, of course, blue. Let no one ever accuse Pfizer of not planning ahead.)

As a middle-aged woman, I’ve got a few biological issues, but as far as I know, not one of them has anything to do with vasodilation, so I’m compelled to wonder exactly what ills pink Viagra will cure. In fact, considering the “Viva Viagra” commercials, I shudder to think what we’ll see when they start marketing it.

I hate to sound ungrateful to the good folks at Pfizer, who apparently have nothing in mind but great sexual performance for all of us right up to and maybe on our deathbeds, but my needs at this point are a little more basic: I’d settle for something I could safely take that would stop my hot flashes and let me get a good night’s sleep.

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