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:: One pill makes you larger ::
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Trend alert! In our hyper-sexualized modern times, claims the NYT, young men are popping erectile-dysfunction medication to obviate any potential performance issues:
Even as the makers of erectile dysfunction drugs switch their pitches from the elderly to the middle aged, an increasing number of young men like Bill are creating a very different market niche.
They are using the pills casually, as party drugs, for their novelty, as an insurance policy against the effects of alcohol or for an increase in prowess — a hope that experts say is often based on a misunderstanding of what the drugs do and what their partners may want. Wow, that's news to me. It's not like they published an almost exactly identical article last December, right down to the focus on comparatively high use among the homosexual community:
Rather, [Chris] is one of an increasing number of sexually healthy men, many in their 20's, 30's and 40's, who doctors and sex therapists say are using impotence drugs — Viagra, Levitra and the new Cialis, a k a "the weekender" because it stays in the bloodstream for 36 hours — as psychological palliatives against the mighty expectations of modern romance.
Some of these men use the drugs when they are not feeling 100 percent virile, others to stave off anxieties that occur with a first-time partner, and still others to fend off what might be called the Samantha complex, a fear of wilting in the face of a new wave of sexually empowered women. Apparently, "Bill" is the new "Chris". Excuse me for getting a, um, rise out of this, but can we save the re-runs for network television and herpes simplex flare-ups? Is it unreasonable to demand, as an attentive and voracious reader of all the latest erectile-dysfunction news, that I not be patronized and implicitly labeled an amnesiac?
I must admit though, the article provides a nice little gem of a neologism:
In Washington State, health officials cite anecdotal evidence of young men mixing erectile dysfunction drugs with Ecstasy into a blend called sextasy. The officials said that some youths steal erectile dysfunction drugs from their parents, or order them online.
Sextacy now joins "sexecutioner" and "sexcapades" in the ammunition drum of rap album titles. I'm sextatic.
Posted by morland @ 05:19 PM
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