[amelius]

Bremelanotide, a medication used to treat low sexual desire in women, has skin hyperpigmentation as a side effect. Could there be a connection?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremelanotide

[adaml_623]

Interesting article. This sentence was interesting:

  Very early in the process one of the scientists, Mac Hadley,[15] who was conducting experiments on himself with the peptide melanotan II, injected himself with twice the dose he intended and experienced an eight-hour erection, along with nausea and vomiting.[13]

[macinjosh]

I don't understand. Sounds like a typical Saturday night to me.

[somedude895]

My bodybuilder friend used to inject Melanotan II (?) and would get super tan after just a couple days of summer. He'd also get wild random erections while on it. It's an anecdote, but the post title instantly made me think of that.

[Scoundreller]

There’s a few decades of small studies confirming this: from 2000:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11035391/