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Vendaval -> Happy 10th Birthday, Viagra! (12/11/2008 2:42:37 PM)
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Wow! It seems like only yesterday Bob Dole was on the TV telling us about the benefits of Viagra. Now there all sorts of pills for ED complete with cutsey mini-informercials warning about erections that last for 4 hours or more. How many spam messages show up in your e-mail box every day for one of these pills?
This article has some great quotes and compares the sexual and social changes brought about by Viagra and other ED medications to the sexual and social changes brought about by The Pill (contraception for women).
"10 Years of Viagra: What the Blue Pill Couldn't Cure"
By Madison ParkCNN
"Urologists heard from patients who had tried the pill that Viagra made them feel as if they were 20-year-olds again. Anti-impotence drugs Levitra and Cialis have come along since.
"Along with the birth control pill in the '60s, this pill really changed people, society and medicine," Goldstein said. "It changed the patient-physician relationship. You can walk in and ask about sexual functions. It was a major taboo at some point."
Dr. Gerald Melchiode, a Texas psychiatrist, agreed that the pill has helped men open up about their sexual health, but finds the commercials a bit much.
"I've never run across men singing about their impotency," he said.
Since Viagra's appearance on the market, the dialogue about sexual dysfunctions has helped doctors identify other health problems in their patients, doctors say.
"You always hear someone drops dead,"said Dr. Chris Steidle, a urologist who wrote the book "Sex and the Heart." "It's not sudden death if you couldn't get an erection. It's a symptom of a heart condition. You wouldn't ignore a stroke, but you would ignore erectile dysfunction -- it's a significant symptom."
The man's penis is like "the tip of the iceberg" or "the canary in the mines," which serve as an indicator of overall health, Morgentaler said."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/12/10/viagra.ten.years/index.html
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