Virility Pill

We Canadians are so polite. When Viagra was made available in the US, every man (and plenty of women) were scrambling to get their hands on the little blue pill full of big promises. Here, a few news items, a titter or two, and that's it. Maybe everyone who needs it, already got their hands on it through a little cross border shopping.

I know you've probably heard enough about it along with enough Viagra jokes to take you well into next year, but I can't just sit back and let the approval of the little blue impotency pill in Canada go by without comment.

Actually, calling it an impotency pill is misleading. This thing is potent. Liz Phair said in an interview that she thought Viagra was great because it would make a lot of guys less grumpy and they could stop taking it out on the rest of us by starting wars and beating up women and shit.

I think it's great, too. If I couldn't get it up for years (who cares if the reason is psychological or physical) and suddenly taking a pill could solve my problem, I'd be right in there. It sure beats the options. I wouldn't want to be sticking a needle in my dick, either.

I admit too, as a woman, if my date couldn't get it up on a regular basis, I'd be thrilled. I love cunnilingus and all the rest of it as much as the next gal, but sometimes you just really want to bonk. And it really does feel better when he's fully at attention. What can I say, I also sleep better on a nice, hard bed than a soft mattress.

An added bonus with Viagra is that it takes stimulation and about an hour to kick in. Foreplay anyone?

So a few guys with heart conditions croaked from all the excitement. They shoulda read the warnings. Nitrates and Viagra don't mix. Not surprisingly, plenty of women have test driven Viagra and, aside from the blinding headaches and blue vision, most of the women in the cases I read about thought it was great. At least when it didn't make them too sick to screw. Apparently, though, while Viagra definitely makes a girl more tingly, it doesn't guarantee her orgasm.

Figures, eh? We women have been complaining about our difficulty achieving orgasm for years and they come up with a pill that helps guys out. Because, you know, they just don't get to have enough orgasms. You'll be happy to learn they are doing clinical trials to test the effectiveness of Viagra on women. I heard they're working on something specifically to help improve our sexual response. I'm sure it's right up there with the male birth-control pill on the priority list.

Imagine, though, if they came up with something that made women more sexually virile. How would that make the boys feel? They'd be popping Viagra like it was candy just to stay ahead of the game. Because as much as guys are always saying they wish women would be more sexually aggressive, they still don't want us to be more sexually aggressive than they are. But I digress.

As it is, guys went scrambling for Viagra, even if they didn't necessarily need it. Viagra sold more in the US in its first six months than any other drug ever released - up to 40,000 prescriptions a day, accoring to one source. It hasn't caused quite the same sensation here, perhaps, as I said earlier, because many Canadians were amongst those US figures.

Like I said, I can understand it if the guy hasn't had a good stiff in a while. But what about all these other guys? Why do they want to take it? Is it that they're educated in the school of harder, faster, and all-night-long? Or is it that having a super-hard dick makes them feel like more of a man?