Let us spray

The Sunday Observer (UK) ^ | April 23, 2006 | by Julian Dibbell

[aculeus]

Billed as libido in an atomiser, PT-141 will finally offer women the chance to turn on their sexual desire as and when they need it. Or so the science says. But there are concerns. Will sex in a spray usher in an age of 'McNookie' - quick easy couplings low on emotional nutrition? Julian Dibbell reports

Horn of rhinoceros. Penis of tiger. Root of sea holly. Husk of the emerald-green blister beetle known as the Spanish fly. So colourful and exotic is the list of substances that have been claimed to heighten sexual appetite that it is hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment on first beholding the latest entry - a small, white plastic nasal inhaler containing an odourless, colourless synthetic chemical called PT-141. Plain as it is, however, there is one thing that distinguishes PT-141 from the 4,000 years' worth of recorded medicinal aphrodisiacs that precede it: this one actually works.

And it could reach the market in as little as three years. The full range of possible risks and side effects has yet to be determined, but already this much is known: a dose of PT-141 results, in most cases, in a stirring in the loins in as little as 15 minutes. Women, according to one set of results, feel 'genital warmth, tingling and throbbing', not to mention 'a strong desire to have sex'.

Among men who have been tested with the drug more extensively, the data set is richer: 'With PT-141, you feel good,' reported anonymous patient 007: 'not only sexually aroused, you feel younger and more energetic.' According to another patient, 'It helped the libido. So you have the urge and the desire...'

[nicmarlo]

That particular package did.

[Monkey Face]

You've never had me in the basement...what am I missing?

[nicmarlo]

libby....tell monkey what she's missing in nully's basement.

[null and void]

Not if it's warm enough inside...

[null and void]

HOW???

[Monkey Face]

Why don't YOU tell me, Nic?

I may decide to keep my chocolate AND my spray!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You don't like chocolate covered cherries?

[Monkey Face]

I suspect it will be warm enough to melt the chocolate.

[Monkey Face]

Yes, as long as they are DARK chocolate covered cherries.

[null and void]

Now you've got me melting.

[sweetliberty]

"You've never had me in the basement...what am I missing?"

Some questions are better left unanswered.

[Monkey Face]

Ah...is that kinda like "What's in this stuff?"

[null and void]

Wise choice...

[Monkey Face]

You're 10 pounds of dark chocolate? That's funny. You sound much taller on the phone.

[null and void]

More like where did this hole come from?

[nicmarlo]

At Christmas, I must buy a half-dozen chocolate chip packages...at the very least. That one got lost for a time.

[Monkey Face]

If nothing else, put the chocolate chips in your freezer. That's where I keep mine.

[null and void]

On the internet no one knows you're a dog...

(and I am taller on the phone, couple inches easy)...

[nicmarlo]

Some questions are better left unanswered.

Hah! She'll probably find out, soon enough.

[nicmarlo]

Good idea...never thought about doing that. What about the cocoa for baking? Do you also store that in the freezer?