Young men and Viagra?
Playboy’s Hugh Hefner once referred to Viagra as the world’s “best legal recreational drug,” and it’s clear that many users think of Viagra that way. This has given rise to a phenomenon that has alarmed health officials and law-enforcement authorities alike.
Starting a few years ago, reports began surfacing that gay and straight clubgoers in New York, Boston, and other cities were using Viagra in combination with alcohol and so-called club drugs such as Ecstasy—a drug combo that became known as “Sextasy.” Ecstasy may make people feel sexy, but it also curtails a man’s ability to have an erection.
Viagra takes care of that problem—but as a result it allows men with loosened inhibitions to have ill-advised or unsafe sex. Under pressure from public-health advocates, Pfizer has added a label on Viagra warning that it “does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.” But critics still complain that Pfizer’s advertisements subtly push recreational, as opposed to clinical, use of Viagra. In one ad that ran before the Super Bowl last year, a man in his 40s smiles at the camera to the tag line: “Be this Sunday’s MVP.”
Read more interesting answers to questions about Viagra on Viagra faq website.
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