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The Sunday Observer (UK) ^
| April 23, 2006
| by Julian Dibbell
Posted on 04/23/2006 8:58:49 AM PDT by 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...'
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To: Monkey Face
Is there no construction in your neighborhood?
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:37:32 PM PDT
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fanfan
(FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
To: fanfan
No...it's an older area...*sigh*
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:40:42 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard, spend money and fly the flag.)
To: Monkey Face
I'm thinking............wait, I know!
A Candy-Gram!
83
posted on
04/23/2006 3:42:18 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
To: aculeus
"Every time the penis of a subject rat emerged, observers marked down the event in a notebook." I'd like to see this guy on "What's My Line?"
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:45:13 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: fanfan
"Candy-Gram for Mongo!"
LOL!
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:45:19 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard, spend money and fly the flag.)
To: Monkey Face
86
posted on
04/23/2006 3:45:53 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard, spend money and fly the flag.)
To: Graymatter
Call me when you have something that makes me want to do housework.
$$$$$ Whats your phone number?
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:47:32 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I wish Jack Bauer would stop yelling.....)
To: Monkey Face
88
posted on
04/23/2006 3:50:17 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
To: Hot Tabasco
LOL. You better have a frickin' cocoa plantation if you want my phone number. :0)
To: aculeus; null and void; TheLion; Borax Queen; nicmarlo; Darksheare
This should be a fun thread.
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:53:16 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: sweetliberty
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:54:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: Lady Jag
What's the word for that? Profit! oooo Moneymoneymoney!
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:55:34 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Ditch the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I want my own space bar and grill (pink bow))
To: Lady Jag
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:56:02 PM PDT
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null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: Monkey Face
Mongo only pawn in game of life...
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posted on
04/23/2006 3:57:12 PM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
That sounds like a line from Toy Story...
95
posted on
04/23/2006 4:00:17 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard, spend money and fly the flag.)
To: null and void
Ain't we all?
Still...if the game is played right...;o]
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posted on
04/23/2006 4:01:19 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard, spend money and fly the flag.)
To: aculeus
What a fun thread.
So basically what we are looking at is a chemical that makes people act like it's 1970 again. The price of sex will plummet to near zero---for men. The wages for domestic help and the price of chocolate will remain high.
Somehow I can't see this as a good thing.
To: Wormwood
Apperently, it smells like a Visa Gold Card. So it smells like poverty and debt?
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posted on
04/23/2006 4:04:24 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Ditch the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I want my own space bar and grill (pink bow))
To: null and void
How DO you manage to find these threads?
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posted on
04/23/2006 4:04:48 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: sweetliberty
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posted on
04/23/2006 4:06:03 PM PDT
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null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
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