When Does Medicine Go Too Far?

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From a junk e-mail I rec'd today:

IT ONLY TAKES MINUTES!
Unlike so-called "herbal sex pills" that can take months of continuous use before you notice any detectible change, TestroGel absorbs in seconds and goes to work immediately!!
USE OF TESTROGEL FOR WOMEN CAN RESULT IN GREATER ORGASMIC PLEASURE. ADDITIONALLY, INDUCE ORGASM FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY HAVING ORGASM OR HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED ORGASM AT ALL.
It quickly raises your androgen levels to give you (and your partner) the sexual confidence, stamina, and intensity it takes to truly satisfy...and be satisfied!
Testimonials:
"Testrogel has put the fun back in my marriage. I actually have butterflies in my stomach anticipating nights with my husband of 17 years" Michelle
"I had 4 orgasms in 20 minutes the first time I used Testrogel" Angela
"Thanks to Testrogel, I now have orgasms everytime I make love" Allie

Seems like most medical innovations designed to help with depression / sexual problems are nothing more than trumped-up placebos (with dastardly side-effects causing children to look like Richard Nixon's hair). Like this stuff - ooo, a CREAM you APPLY to your NETHERREGIONS (I'm guessing) for SEX? What an innovation!

Ah, but I'm just shooting my mouth off. I relinquish the wheel to whomever wants to steer this ship onto the scatological rocks.

PS - No, I don't know why I (a male, last I checked) got an ad for a female sex aid.

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Er, where can you get this stuff?

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I got it ICQued to me this morning .

― anthony, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Quack medicine? In a junk e-mail? What a surprise!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ah, this reminds me of the golden summer I spent manning the main phone line into the Medicines Control Agency. All of a sudden, everyone was talking about this hot new drug called Viagra and I had to field calls from (a) men who were impotent, embarrassed and desperate, (b) journalists pretending to be impotent, embarrassed and desperate in an attempt to bypass our press office and quite possibly (c) journalists who really were impotent, embarrassed and desperate. Happy days.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't 'get' Viagra. Why would anybody take a drug to make somebody ELSE feel good? Guys - if you can't get it up, say, "Sorry bitch, bring a better-looking friend next time"!

― tarden, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Or turn into a bottom

― anthony, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You know, when Viagra first hit the news, I ran into this mad bloke who wanted to pull a hoax on the British tabloids involving the idea that there was a pack of wild women running around London, drugging men with Viagra and raping them. He was trying to get me involved in the scheme. I laughed until I sobered up, and then I backed away slowly, trying not to make any sudden moves...

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Medicine goes too far when it kills people. Medicine also goes to far when it tastes horrible.

― Pete, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two months pass...

Testrogel

― Viper, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Females have orgasms?

― dave q, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Obviously not with dave q they don't.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wasn't that his point?

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is this now something to boast about? I thought men stood round in pubs telling their mates how they made some girl come 46 times last night. Sexual politics are very confusing.

(NB I don't really think men do this).

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

46 times thats nothing, When I'm in the pub with a bunch of lads we discuss way bigger numbers than that..........

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what, you count your blackheads?

― katie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

sorry. couldn't resist.

― katie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Emma, Dave Q is rebelling against Cosmo culture, I think. I know you are too, in your own way. Incidentally, has anyone read Company recently? It used to be a juicier rival to Cosmobut now it's just a flimsy piece of shit. Who buys it?
― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Really, D. Nick.

I had an ex who would tell ME about the amount of times he made his ex-girlfriends come. I think my incredulous expression whenever he tried to boast should have told him that PERHAPS THEY WERE LYING.

CosmoGirl is a LOT better than Cosmo. But seeing as I spend my money on imported Japanese fashion rags I can't understand, I may not be the most common vox pop on the street.

― Sarah, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A couple I know spread ludicrously overestimated rumours about how many orgasms they have in order to get people to compete and rupture themselves.

― DG, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What, do you and your mates have some kind of league table system in operation? How does this couple prove they aren't lying? Do they supply samples of the, er, fluids involved?

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, there are two couples involved in this, LC and AL, who've been going out for 3 years, and DR and RS, who've been going out for about 3 months. DR is v v v competitive and wants to believe that she has BETTER SEX THAN LC. LC, in her infinite wisdom, sees an opportunity for an extended practical joke and thus feeds DR disinformation thru 'girlie chats', as I believe they're called. DR being competitive wouldn't want to admit defeat either by claiming medical impossibility or simply inability, so must continue to feel inadequate. Ha ha!

― DG, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't wait till I'm old enough to have a ticking biological clock.......

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

DG, I think it's time you punched "AL's" lights out.

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Eh? Why? He's a lovely fellow.

― DG, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Medicine goes too far when it goes past Winter Street. Medicine knows it's not allowed to go past the end of the block without adult supervision.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I just drank about half a bottle of Sudafed and now feel extremely trippy, I think it is cough medicine gone too far.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My mother and sister are pharmacists, thats medicine gone too far, at least too far for me to bear with three brothers who are engineers. The milkman must have been a freelance journalist.

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Did I say three brothers? I only have two, I meant two and my father.

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two years pass...

i got an interesting spam from Holly Shi!t, who claimed that she could take a pill to make her "fuck like a pro nowt!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

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