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The Hayden-Katrina sex video stimulated national curiosity, intrigue, and yes, sales of erection enhancing drugs, Viagra et al!
I learned about this from Jane Yap, brand manager of Bayer’s Levitra a competitor of Viagra (Pfizer).
Yap shares “We’re happy about windfall income, but we’re a little worried too”.
Erection enhancing drugs (EED) should be taken under doctor’s supervision. Taking them for “recreational purposes” may have fatal consequences. It manipulates the blood flow into the “target organ” with dire consequences on other unhealthy organs. In extreme cases side effects come in the form of a heart attack and death.
Yap describes recreational use as “a situation where ‘perfectly healthy’ men take EED to enhance sexual prowess”
I suspect the recent sales uptick at the height of the sex video scandal was largely recreational and Yap agrees.
So who can take it then?
“Only the ‘sick’ ones”, Yap elaborates “The ones with Erectile Dysfunction”.
Erectile Dysfunction is a condition characterized by the regular or repeated inability to obtain or maintain an erection.
I’d like to believe Erectile Dysfunction is a rare medical condition affecting (very very few) men?
“If it is uncommon how come there are over 6 brands led by Viagra competing in the market today?” she asks.
Six brands sounds like a handful!
If most men are “okay” below the belt, science could just use resources to develop the cure for other illnesses that take away more than just one’s sex life.
“There’s even a generic drug for erection enhancement which costs half the price of the branded ones,” Yap adds.
If ED is that important to science (and business) it is only because the market is big.
So big in fact, that an array of herbal supplements are also pushing their “tongkat ali” or ginseng-based “love potions”. These being more affordable, are off the shelves in no time, even if there’s no “hard evidence” of therapeutic benefit.
So that leaves us with the million dollar question that should be asked of every guy:
Can you still get it up?
I should be getting prompt “ayes” to this especially from younger men who may think they’re omnipotent. Not so fast stud! Study shows that the youngest Levitra taker is 18 years old!
Let’s just admit it. It is hard for men to talk about hardness, specifically the lack of it. Diminishing virility is taboo in a world where softness is not an attribute of masculinity.
But let’s also face it (the rough statistics, I mean). According to the United Kingdom’s Sexual Dysfunction Association 10 of every 100 could not “sustain the offensives” at some point in their lives. Aside from Erectile Dysfunction others experience “premature trips to heaven” as they “come before they arrive”. They pray this should be highly temporary and their women (unhappy with the short trip themselves) pray with them in unison.
But whether men deny it or not, erectile dysfunction is common because stress, smoking and ailments like diabetes and high blood pressure can cause it.
Still, promoting the drug has been an uphill battle for pharmaceutical companies. The market is so “hushed up” it is almost like selling illegal drugs.
Urologists are supposed to be prescribing it but because many men don’t open up, pharmaceuticals are now thinking out of the box.
“We reach out to Obstetricians and Gynecologists for instance, who can recommend it to women whose husbands have a problem”, Yap says.
I knew it! Women are really talkative about bedroom disasters than men.
And even if men want to do something about their “dead soldiers” they’re not up to see a doctor for it. Many men get checked for diabetes or high blood pressure, and with erectile dysfunction just a “side effect” of their other existing ailments doctors can only “suggest” the use of the drug.
Like a careless whisper.