When Did Prude Turn Into Pills?

December 3, 2007 - 4:15 pm By CC Staff

viagra In a college whirlwind of saucy stories, sexcapades, and scandals I guess I’m just a little confused. Women’s viagra??? Is there actual demand for that?

Alright so I understand that after thirty years of marriage things might uh, burn out… especially if your once abs of steel husband has steadily grown to resemble the Pillsbury Doughboy. Fair enough. But do we really need more meds solving our everyday human nature problems?

Womenra (can anyone say pla-ce-bo?) is a drug awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The pill is said to boost female sex drive. Yeeeeeahhh…

Technically it just helps you reach arousal more successfully, which in turn is supposed to make you want to romp around in bed more often, a fair correlation to make, I’ll give them that.

I don’t know, I guess I’m just old fashioned… shouldn’t the whole physical attraction/love for your significant other/just wanting a good piece of A-S-S be enough?

Silly little pharmaceutical companies, tricks are for kids! And Viagra is for men. A more effective product would be a life size Mark Wahlberg, not that that’s on my Christmas list or anything…

Chance McClain says:
Tue, 4th Dec 200711:24 am

Um…This new mystery drug has a name. It’s called ‘beer’. Men have been using it for ages.

mjh says:
Sat, 15th Dec 20075:09 pm

Ok. So first, I’ve been married to my wife for 13 years. Second, yes, as is fairly common, I weigh more than I did when I got married. So does she. This latter is a fact for which I care not at all. Frankly, I wish she would care less about her weight because her self images influences her sexual desire.

But, it turns out to be a pretty big problem for most of the couples that both my wife & I know. There is an enormous disparity in the sexual desire between husbands and wives. And this disparity causes problems. And it appears to be (mostly) the same thing: the husbands are more interested than the wives. And not having an outlet for these biological desires has consequences that no one wants: temptation, flirtation and infidelity.

Don’t misunderstand: I’m not saying that there’s a 1:1 causal relationship here, nor am I saying that these consequences are justifiable. But there is an increased risk of those consequences that results from a difference in sexual desire. The closest analogy that I can come up with the need to use the restroom. When you have ready access to a restroom, you can quite easily keep up certain standards for what constitutes a fine restroom to use. But if you don’t have that access, biological demand starts playing with those standards. And if it goes on for too long, just about anything starts to look “good enough”.

Do I think that it’s a good idea to try and bridge what I’ll call “the libido gap” with drugs? I don’t know. But I do think it’s a good idea to try. Personally, if I could figure out something on my end to bridge the gap, I’d happily do it.