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A new study suggests that Viagra could increase the risk of hearing loss, potentially creating a dilemma for men with erectile dysfunction. As if they didn't have enough to deal with. More »
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Now that he's semi-retired, Larry's letting loose, joking with Leno about everything from his mother-in-law to Italian/Jewish rivalry. When asked about his kids' age differences—the oldest being 55 and the youngest being 10—he bragged about his Viagra-less virility. More »
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We got our hands on a copy of Time Out New York's Sex Issue — from 1996. Let's take a look inside to see what sex was like when business was booming and "hookup culture" hadn't been invented yet. More »
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The funniest "to be sure" caveat I've seen lately: "Larry King himself may well be merely the world's most ever-ready septuagenarian." A more likely explanation: Viagra. And he's not alone. More »
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•  A British parliamentary candidate has received some criticism for airbrushed photos that appeared on a billboard with the slogan "It's time for a change." Her personal assistant claims that Caroline Dinenage had no idea the photo had been changed. More »
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A study has found that older men want — and enjoy — sex more than older women do. But "there is a silver lining for older women having bad or unwanted sex: men tend to die younger than women." More »
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• Good news for undersexed ladies: Scientists may be close to developing a libido-boosting pill for women. The drug was initially developed as an antidepressant, but trials showed it made participants no happier, but a little hornier. •  More »
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A Florida company has created a brand of gum they say helps boost male libido. But before you reach for the magnums, Sexlets "don't claim to cure anything" and are available for the low, low price of $11.97. [UPI] More »
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"Two years ago, bored, fed-up, frustrated with my life and with my confidence plummeting, I walked into a kitchen full of women." And discovered her sexuality! (That's them, post-discovery.) More »
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In this 10th anniversary ad? They definitely show, don't tell. [YouTube via AdGabber] More »
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The brilliant headline "Restless Vagina Syndrome" had me primed to giggle at whatever Terry J. Allen wrote underneath it, but instead, I ended up fuming at Big Pharma and the patriarchy. So, you know, must be Tuesday. More »
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Verdict: If you're adult enough to have a boner, you should be adult enough to swallow a pill. [The London Paper] More »
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U.S.-backed Afghani President Hamid Karzai is poised to issue a law on women's rights that the UN Development Fund for Women has warned against and a female Parliamentarian calls "worse than during the Taliban." More »
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Oh boy: Mexico City will start distributing out one or two doses of Viagra and other impotence drugs free of charge to men age 70 and older. The pills will be distributed at three different sexual health centers starting December 1. The mayor of Mexico City said that he is implementing the plan because sexuality "has a lot to do with quality of life and out happiness." [USA Today] More »
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• A man in New York is being sued by Pfizer for towing a large fake missile around Manhattan "for fun" on September 8 with the words "Viva Viagra" printed on the side. • Oh, and apparently authorities at the Lincoln Tunnel never checked to see if the missile was real or not when he drove by them on September 8. • The "pregnancy pact" school board in Gloucester, Massachusetts is expected to vote tonight whether schools should distribute contraceptives to students. • A new study has not found enough evidence to say that circumcision reduces the risk of a man getting HIV when engaging in anal sex. • More »
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Natalie Archibald is a 7-year-old girl in Scotland who is being kept alive with four doses of Viagra a day. Natalie suffers from the lung condition primary pulmonary hypertension, a condition that causes abnormally high blood pressure that effects the arteries in the lungs and makes people who suffer from the condition faint and turn blue. Viagra helps Natalie by opening up her arteries and improving blood flow and stops the fainting spells and bouts of exhaustion. Natalie's mother (who had to quit her job as a legal secretary to take care of her daughter) says that now Natalie can "run, jump, and skip" with all of her friends. [Telegraph] More »
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Lesbians, rejoice! A Greek court has dismissed the request of three residents from the island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women. • A dying 8-year-old boy "married" his "special friend" in a make-believe ceremony a day before he passed away from leukemia. • A male letter carrier from Washington State is urging other carriers to wear kilts since they are more comfortable; he even spent his stimulus checks on mailing letters about his cause. • The headmistress of a school in England campaigns against "orange" fake-tan schoolgirls. • Diet sugar-free cranberry juice and cranberry juice cocktail both work the same to prevent UTIs. • OMG: Iced tea can be one of the "worst things to drink" for people prone to kidney stones. More »
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• Cudmudgeonly uncle-anchor Jack Cafferty has disappointed millions of women everywhere by saying, "Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction. Birth control is a lifestyle choice," when discussing John McCain's little birth control gaffe. Jack, sweetie, birth control pills do treat medical conditions and there's a good economic argument (pregnancy is expensive) for covering them. Erectile dysfunction, however, is God's way of telling you to keep it in your pants, old man. [Crooks & Liars]
• John McCain has proved a disappointment to the Secret Service by letting slip details of Barack Obama's highly secret-for-his-own-safety trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Man, he really will do anything to keep playing his commercial about how Obama's never been. [Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic]

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Have you seen the video of a woman earlier this week asking John McCain why "health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control"? After silence, some chin-rubbing and arm-crossing, he replied, "I don't know enough about it to give you a informed answer." Today, Planned Parenthood is going after McCain using his own words, and is hoping women voters will take notice. Maybe they should hear this too: Politico reports that three people wearing NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico T-shirts were denied access to John McCain's town hall meeting in Albuquerque yesterday — despite being ticket holders for the event. Yeah, we've got a serious problem. More »
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Just in time for the Fourth of July, researchers at Texas A&M are reporting that watermelons can have a Viagra-like effect on the body and may increase libido. Citrulline, a phyto-nutriant that occurs in watermelons, has the ability to relax blood vessels, so break out a watermelon or two this holiday weekend and get humpin'. [Science Daily] More »
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It is, perhaps, one of those great mysteries of life and biology that when a man gets drunk, or stoned, or high as shit on coke and wants to bone, he often can't get his equipment to function in concert with his lowered inhibitions. For many men, this is often a sign that you should either: a) abuse substances slightly less or b) probably not bone. For others, it's a sign that they need to get Viagra scrips. As Jayson Gallaway, author of Diary of a Viagra Fiend says, "Somebody is buying $570 million worth of Viagra each year, and it's not just Bob Dole." But if he can get it up, should you be taking advantage? A reason why not is after the jump. More »
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We aren't the types who think that desserts are "sinful," but the recipes on Porn Bread kinda are. It's a site that gives DIY instructions on how to make sexed-up treats like Dirty Sanchez cookies, Viagra cupcakes, penis pretzels, "Jiggly Gelatin Boobs", Kama Sutra gingerbread cookies, and much more. [Porn Bread] More »
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In Sunday's Times of London, there was a feature on Britain's Marriage Guidance Council (MGC), now known as "Relate." The nonprofit MGC was founded in 1938 in order to help mend Britain's ailing marriages. The Times publishes some of MGC's case files from the '40s, and one caught my eye in particular. It is case No. 67, which tells the story of a 26-year-old artist and his wife. The wife has an illegitimate child who was fathered by a border — a naval officer — whom the family lodged. According to the caseworker, "The husband does not in the least resent what has happened, likes the other man and is very attached to his wife." The husband is not resentful, the caseworker reasons, because the husband suffers from an unspecified "sexual perversion" that stopped him from doing it with his wife. More »
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Here is a story that is all shades of "Yes, capitalism, it does breed evil": Alan Hesketh of Connecticut was just arrested at JFK airport for trafficking hundreds of images of child porn. He is 61 years old. His job was directing patents for Pfizer, so basically his purpose in life was to make sure his company made as much money as legally possible selling Viagra to horny old men who can afford it and anti-fungals to Third World AIDS patients who can't. [WSJ] More »
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Yesterday marked the official 10th birthday of Viagra, the little blue boner maker, and U.S. News and World Report has a trio of articles about potential Viagras for women. There are currently two lady libido drugs in the midst of clinical trials — one is a testosterone gel, and the other is a pill that acts on serotonin receptors. The testosterone gel is closer to FDA approval, but part of the hold-up is that approval standards for a female version of Viagra are higher than they were for the original: according to U.S. News, "A drug for women must not only elicit desire but also yield an increased number of sexually satisfying events." More »
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Do we need a women's Viagra? (Wiagra?) The pharmaceutical industrial complex is working on it, and the quest has divided the feminazi bonerkiller ranks! Some of us think we deserve insurance-paid hornytime parity with men. But the thing is: while erectile dysfunction is actually, you know, a palpable condition, "not feeling horny" is not. Um... but...couldn't they make it into one? Like, you know "social anxiety disorder"? Well yes! It's a new corporate-sponsored phenomenon called "hypoactive sexual desire disorder." But think of the implications of that, say the anti-Wiagra feminists! Like: not feeling like having sex is a disorder. Like there is something wrong with you. Like if you don't want enough sex you are basically just sponsoring a bill advocating your husband cheat on you with high-class call girls... More »
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It's the tenth anniversary of Viagra! And given this rare nexus of the pharmaceutical industry, the institutionalized sexism that so famously led insurers to reimburse the Viagra prescriptions of the same men whose girlfriends couldn't get their fucking birth control covered, and the gazillions of terabytes of Viagra-hawking spam clogging the world's fiber optic cables, we should probably be doing some sort of angry feminist rant about it. But I'm feeling counterintuitive today! (And also, um, sex-positive.) So instead I compiled 5 reasons we should all stop worrying and learn to love the little blue pill so beloved by Jack Nicholson and 30 million other men too old to be having threesomes. More »
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File this under the best news in 2008 so far: Tests are currently being conducted on a Viagra-like drug for women! It's not a pill, but a "testosterone-laden ointment" called LibiGel, by Illinois-based BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc., that's intended to boost women's libidos. It's not rubbed on the vulva though, but on the arm and takes 24 hours to seep into the bloodstream and take effect. According to the clinical trials so far, LibiGel has had a "283% increase of satisfying sexual encounters for the women taking the drug." Go ahead and dance around to this song right now. [USA Today] More »
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Girl Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson: "I'm 22 and still have my whole sex life ahead of me. I still have a lot of sex years ahead of me. But all girls need a vibrator!" In other words, sex with Hef is barely mildly satisfying, despite the existence of Viagra. [Monsters & Critcs] More »
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Tell your men to save their money: Viagra? Who needs it! Pomegranate juice apparently has the same effects as the little blue pill. Here's to bulbous (somewhat phallic), overpriced fruit juice! [AHN] More »
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Check out how Pfizer is pushing Viagra in China. According to this print ad running in Beijing (that's more than reminiscent of that movie Armageddon), Viagra isn't about getting boners, but getting pregnant. Oh, and it's not that men weren't able to penetrate our vaginas without Viagra because of their flaccid penises, it was that they couldn't penetrate our rock-hard meteor eggs. (Click tag for full size image.) [Copyranter] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312337&view=rss&microfeed=true If this commercial for Viagra had aired during SNL, I definitely would've thought it was a skit. But it's real! It's of a bunch of middle-aged dudes in a juke joint singing "Viva Viagra" to the tune of Elvis' "Viva Las Vegas." They're so jazzed about their erectile dysfunction that they needed to jam out about it! In the end, they hightail it out of there, presumably because their meds have kicked in and they have raging boners that they need to go stick in something. More »
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• Is your significant other in possession of a unremitting erection? Does he want to have sex when you're trying to shake off jet lag? Well, things aren't looking up on that last point. [DailyMirror]

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Welcome to world of the weird, where we've just discovered an unusual use for Viagra: Saving babies, rather than making them! More »
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Apparently there were a lot of disappointed ladies in Britain yesterday, after claims that Viagra was going to be sold over the counter at drugstores proved a wee bit, well, premature, shall we say. More »
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