On June 11, Sprout relaunched Addyi with an online prescription service. Whether it becomes a blockbuster this time or fizzles, its reappearance is inspiring a public discussion of an intensely private subject. Sprout not only didn’t give up, it also contested some of the FDA’s requirements for continuing, and the agency backed down from one of the most onerous, another large-scale trial. Still, Eckert and her allies saw a system that was hostile to even the premise of the drug. “I said, ‘You’re going to have to go after the sexism,’” says Anita Clayton, chair of psychiatry and neurobehavioral...