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Addicted to Viagra: A growing number of young men can’t cope without those little blue pills
Daily Mail ^ | 10/04/2012 | By TANITH CAREY

Posted on 10/04/2012 5:21:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

To the casual observer, bachelor Daniel Atkinson looks like any other healthy, athletic young man in the prime of his life.

Six foot tall with chiselled cheekbones and a trim physique, Daniel admits he never has any difficulty attracting the opposite sex.

But Daniel, 32, has a very intimate secret. When he wants to have sex with a woman, he needs up to two Viagra pills to perform.

The blue tablets, which are available on the NHS, have long been viewed as essential medication for men in their 50s, 60s and beyond.

But Daniel is one of a growing number of young males turning to the drug due to performance anxiety, triggered by a host of psychological issues from the proliferation of porn on the internet making ‘normal’ sex seem boring, to financial pressures.

Viagra was even blamed for its part in the suicide of a 24-year-old writer earlier this year, after his girlfriend discovered he was secretly using it.

James Andrews’s body was found on a railway line between Bristol and Bath on Valentine’s Day. An inquest into his death revealed how he’d rowed with girlfriend Eleanor Sharpe — a ballet dancer who appeared in the Olympic closing ceremony — over his use of the drug, despite the pair enjoying a ‘normal physical relationship’.

Daniel, now an entertainment promoter, was just 20 and on a weekend with friends in Amsterdam when he took his first pill. It was supplied to him by a friend, after he had picked up a girl.

Even though he had never had erectile problems, he was so impressed by the extra stamina it gave him he continued to take the drug with subsequent girlfriends.

On two occasions, he was even prescribed it by his GP, albeit with warnings about the long-term effects

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: sex; viagra
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To: forgotten man

We had a Viagra truck crash into the river up in the Delta and none of the draw bridges would go back down for nearly 4 hours.


41 posted on 10/04/2012 7:14:41 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: SeekAndFind
he’d rowed with girlfriend Eleanor Sharpe

I'm picturing a boat but here she is, a ballet dancer.

42 posted on 10/04/2012 7:20:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: cuban leaf

It’s a godsend to those who have prostate cancer!


43 posted on 10/04/2012 7:21:49 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: VoiceOfBruck
Is anyone else getting absolutely sick unto death of ads for various pills and supplements to improve mens’ “performance”?

I got sick of those "bathtub" ads, but after a while I kind of liked them. There was one where everything morphed into a ski resort and a chair lift materialized and on they climbed ... now if I only could get a hold of THAT !

44 posted on 10/04/2012 7:26:01 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: forgotten man

“They say if it lasts for more than four hours to call a doctor....heck, if it lasts for more than four hours, I’m calling EVERYBODY!”


45 posted on 10/04/2012 7:26:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: driftdiver

If he keeps himself up then he should have no problem unless it’s medical (low testosterone, prostate cancer, High BP, etc.)

The best way to “enhance performance” is with practice. To be good it takes practice, to be great it takes more practice.

Keep your sex life active and your performance gets better and better with increasing frequency and better familiarity with the way your body works.

Those nitwits; male and female who think porn is sex as opposed to an enhanced performance are simply stupid.

Having edited pornography in a past life, I can assure you it is not what you think. Every frame, every scene is the result of hours of “work” by the actors, and make no mistake they are actors, not lovers. The male actors know their bodies, and know how to “control” themselves and their limits.

The unedited material is simply repulsive. You can hear the director talking, barking instructions to the performers, camera people, lighting, set, props, It can take up to 32 hours to create 30 minutes of M on F.

30 minutes of F on F can be done in an afternoon. If one notices the amount of F on F material out there, it is because it is cheap to make, relatively disease free and there are no performance limitations on the female actors that exist in men.


46 posted on 10/04/2012 7:29:04 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: dfwgator
Including my high school sweetheart....who dumped me at prom!!!

How'da like me know????

47 posted on 10/04/2012 7:35:06 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: luckystarmom
Thank you for your post, many people on FR who are posting on this thread are totally insensative and have no clue how diabilitating protate cancer and prostate issues are regarding ED. A friend of the family, healthy male, just 40 diagnosed with prostate cancer, underwent radiation therapy, another friend, 62 diagnosed with prostate cancer in early stages. Both men suffer ED through no fault of their own. Viagra and Cialis are quality of life drugs for these men and their wives. These are just two of millions of men suffering ED as a direct result of prostate issues.

Sad to read some of the foolish comments made. Wait until some of these same posters are struck and effected with ED as a direct result of prostate issues through no fault of their own. They will thank God such drugs exist when it hits them personally.

48 posted on 10/04/2012 8:44:19 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: GreenHornet

A man who is taking iron supplements can’t take Viagra because it makes him spin around and point north!


49 posted on 10/04/2012 9:15:36 PM PDT by TEXAS1947
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To: Jmouse007

I had an argument with a sister years ago about medical advertising. There are legitimate uses, but it shouldn’t be marketed to, and pushed on, males that don’t have a legitimate medical need. It’s been turned into a recreational drug, and that’s wrong.


50 posted on 10/04/2012 9:23:33 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

‘”Men just aren’t the same today,”
I hear ev’ry mother say
They just don’t appreciate that you get tired
They’re so hard to satisfy. You can tranquilise your mind
So go running for the shelter of your mother’s little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimise your plight.’


51 posted on 10/04/2012 9:35:51 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t know about you, but I’d hit that or try to hit that so often that she’d be forced to put an anti-androgen in my coffee.


52 posted on 10/04/2012 9:36:37 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Talisker

Don’t forget Propecia. Block DHT-2 production and performance issues can arise. The effects can last even after one has stopped taking the drug.


53 posted on 10/04/2012 9:39:55 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Jmouse007
Which poster said that it couldn't be used with real health problems?

The article is talking about a young, healthy male.

54 posted on 10/04/2012 10:18:04 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: rmlew

Or Gin. I lived overseas a while with Brit neighbors who introduced us to gin and tonic. After a couple weeks I told my husband he had to go back to beer. The alcohol effect was pretty dramatic.


55 posted on 10/04/2012 10:57:16 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth)
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To: Jmouse007

My husband at 50 was diagnosed last year. He had surgery in December. Viagra and cialis also help with healing because it increases blood flow to the area.


56 posted on 10/04/2012 11:18:12 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Lurker

That’s the way I was til my husband got prostate cancer. I was a very selfish wife.

Sex is a gift from God!


57 posted on 10/04/2012 11:21:27 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: SeekAndFind

Their girlfriends get them started on them when they are in their teens and college years thinking it means “everready” and “all night long”. The hype has led to lame performance.


58 posted on 10/04/2012 11:49:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Randy Larsen
How long have you been waiting for just the right thread to use that GIF?

No waiting. googled pop-up turkey timer, and chose that one. It's perfect for this thread!

59 posted on 10/05/2012 12:19:46 AM PDT by WVKayaker (I'm more than happy to be Obama's "enemy of the week" - Sarah Palin)
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To: forgotten man
You know Eraserhead!?


60 posted on 10/05/2012 12:52:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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