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Planespotting: Billy O’Reilly Thinks Limbaugh Was Setup…

June 30, 2006

Money and Snacks GV.jpgJust when you thought our relationship with Bill O’Reilly was out-the-door, done, finished, over, finito—there was an incident at a cocktail party last month, don’t really want to get into it—Papa Bear goes and does something that just reels us right back in to that big, furry, pundit o’ love embrace, hook, line and sinker. And you know what? There’s no place we’d rather be; it feels like coming home. On Tuesday, we reported that Rush Limbaugh—our Rush Limbaugh—had been detained in a Palm Beach airport, coming back from the Dominican Republic, for having a bottle of Viagra prescribed to someone else in his carry-on bag. And, boy, were we upset. o’reilly.jpgNo, actually, we weren’t upset—we were blood-boilingly livid.

You see, prior to this little incident, we’d been dating Rushy for quite some time (“dating� is a flexible, relative term, so LAY OFF). And recently he’d started acting pretty cold toward us, which stung pretty badly, though not nearly as badly as when he started dodging our e-mails, (conveniently) “missing� our phone calls, and just outright ignoring us, all together. We mean—it was just SO out of the blue. We’d thought we were having a great time and, being careful not to put all of our eggs in the proverbial one basket, believed that not only would he come around, but that he’d soon pop that big question (“Do you want to go halfsies on this 6-pack? Or should I get my own? You always say you’re only going to have one or two, but 30 minutes later, they’re all gone, you’re drunk and I’m standing here like a putz, stone-cold sober. So do you want to go halfsies? I should just get my own, right?�). But neither of those magical things ever happened and, in fact, when we stopped by—and let ourselves into—his apartment over the weekend, he was no where to be seen. And then we find out about this little jaunt to the Dominican Republic and it’s all we can do to fight back the tears, until we read about the Viagra and it’s just all over from there; we’re talking salty discharge just totally streaming out of our eyes, can’t get out of bed, can’t do anything, for like two days straight. It wasn’t just that he’d lied to us about where he was—that we can quasi deal with. But the Viagra? It’s our worst fear confirmed—that lowlife bastard is cheating on us! We know this because he’s never used Viagra with us; in fact, not to get into the details, but we were actually quite surprised with his virility, for a man his age and weight—guess that saying about bald men isn’t such an old wives’ tale, after all. Anyway, we were very much upset, as you know, and didn’t really know what to do with ourselves. And then we got to thinking: was he with Leonore Annenberg? Her Gulfstream V was just spotted in FL; were they planning on a rendezvous? Or what about Oprah? Rush’s always had a thing for her (he watches the show EVERY DAY, without fail), and some stalking on our part procured the fishy little fact that her plane flew to Ft. Myers, FL, just three days ago. Needless to say, our minds were wandering, and we were not in a good place, mentally, at all. And then, suddenly: Bill. There he was, a beacon of light, a voice of reason, an angel, really, in the middle of the night.

“No!â€? he said Tuesday night on his show, “Bull! That’s bull!â€? to accusations that Limby* did anything wrong. At first we just thought Bill was trying to cover for him in front of us, like his lawyer, Roy Black always does. But the longer he went on, the longer we realized—Bill’s right! Of course it was “political persecution.â€? Of course it was a “setup.â€? Rush would never betray us like this! Bill then went on to tell us that “it was a malicious cheap, cheap tactic by the Palm Beach authorities, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves… You find a prescription improperly labeled and you call the [police]—come on. Come on!â€? “Yeah,â€? we nodded in agreement, “yeah, that’s it!â€? “Furthermore,â€? B.O. convinced everyone—us and America—that “In Palm Beach, where Mr. Limbaugh lives, they’re out to get this guy.â€? Truer words have never been spoken, we all reckoned. Billy then offered Rush some advice, which was to “move right on out of there. I’d get out of there,â€? he offered. “They’re after [you].â€? WELL—there’s a weight off our chests; Rush is the good guy we always thought he was! It’s just a conspiracy by the cops and the media to take him down!
If our calculations are correct—and they usually are—Rush will be on the run by early tomorrow morning or late tomorrow afternoon at the latest. It probably won’t be in his own plane, because, obviously, the 5-0’s now onto it, but we’re pretty sure we heard a message on the answering machine last night from Bill, saying something about how “Rupes* said ‘yes’ to us borrowing the Leer and it’s all gassed up and ready to go; don’t forget the gum, you know my ears can’t handle the take-off/landing without it.� Sorry that today was more of a “Pre-Planespotting Spotting,� but we just had to let you know that everything’s good between us and Rush now, and, more importantly, between us and Bill. (However, if we should find out that Rupert’s plane ends up anywhere near Long Beach, CA, where the Hilton Hotels’ Gulfstream V landed on June 24, or Atlantic City, where lame-duck pardonee Marc Rich’s wife’s Learjet 60 was spotted, just this afternoon, you’d better believe there’ll be hell to pay.) (There also might be a catfight among DealBreaker, Paris and Denise, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, just yet).

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Planespotting: Viagra Edition

June 28, 2006

Rush Limbaugh is like David Geffen in that he will never freaking learn.Background info: we recently became infatuated with Rush Limbaugh; as such, we dedicate this edition of Planespotting to him, his Viagra, and an actual, real life story!* We’re not sure when it started, or why, but lately, R. Limbaugh’s all we can think about. What’s he doing, where’s he going, what’s he thinking, will he come over tonight, should we call him or should we wait for him to call us (he did say he’d call…but that was three days ago!)? To be honest, it’s time-consuming and tedious and if we could kick our habit for that big bowl of conservative radio talking love we would, but, thing of it is, we can’t. Like they say, “Kicking coke is one thing, but Rush? Oh, that’s a drug far too powerful.” So what with our hands tied conquering what some people– small minded ones, you realize– would call a “problem” with smack, getting over Rush just wasn’t in the cards, at least not for this week. So, seeing as though we were (/are) still restraining-order worthy obsessed with him, we did what you would expect anyone with such an infatuation to do and started stalking him. Like, hard-core stalking him. Like, crazy-freaking stalking him. Like breaking into his apartment and waiting for him behind the door stalking him. And naturally, we wanted to know where he was at all times, just like any good stalker (and girlfriend!) would; thus, the tracking of his private plane. But guess what?

That bastard tried to hide from us! Just like Geffen did, ohhh, just like Geffen did. This brought up a host of bad memories (all those times we would make an extra-special dinner and David would be “too busy with work” to come home on time; the time David forgot our birthday; the time David tried to get out of sex by telling us he “like[d] men”), not least of which was the time David tried to hide the whereabouts of his plane, too! It just– it just stung so badly, reliving that utter betrayal. But, then– hang on there a second, Skippy. Remember what happened when David tried to mess with us? Oh yeah, yeah you do. We “exposed what the little scallywag thought would be an elaborately difficult but successful business plan that would a. make him lots and lots of money b. louse up our plan at world domination via planespotting and c. finally make Ashlee Simpson look legit**,” remember? Oh yes, Lady Justice was a sweet, sweet maiden to us that day. And guess what? LJ is back again, this time fighting crime: Limbaugh-style. As it turns out, Rushy-boy reportedly went to the Dominican Republic a few days back. We hope he got a nice, scathing burn, but either way, we’re sure it must’ve stung (and later peeled) to be held for over three hours yesterday at Palm Beach Int’l Airport on his way home, after the fuzz found a vial of– oh, what’s that?– what did they find?– a bottle of Viagra, you say? A bottle of Viagra, without a prescription? Oooh, Rush! Rushy! That’s not good! What happened there? Our sources*** say that “a doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was ‘labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes,’ [according to] Roy Black, Limbaugh’s attorney.” Well, now, that is just like Roy to be covering for Rush. This isn’t anything new– the two of them were in cahoots for months when Rush was trying to keep that barely legal secretary from us. Typical. Apparently, the authorities are planning on filing a report with the state attorney’s office, and Rush could be charged with a second-degree misdemeanor violation. That’d be getting off easy, we think. Afterall, what’s the charge for breaking someone’s heart?

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Ask Sadie: We liberated mothers - but what of our fathers?

June 20, 2006

Those of us who’ve boomed our way from anti-war to antioxidants and love beads to Viagra have seen a bigger change in moms than that cyborg-cop in “Terminator 2.”
After all, since the late ’60s, we Moms have deservedly been . . . liberated, rescued and supported thanks to the activism of the Good Ladies of the March.
We had the benefit of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan ripping those phantom pearls from our throats while we vacuumed (actually, ripping the vacuums) telling us, like the Scarecrow in “Oz,” we actually did have a brain capable of more than pondering ring around the collar. And rights. And we’d been wronged.
And oh . . . what that wrought! A debate on both sides of the feminine aisle that would have had Lincoln and Douglas turn to miming.
To this day, the debate continues .(After 36 hours of labor, most of us realize we’re “a mom” to something that means something.)
Left, right, middle, in the past 40 years, moms - our trials, our woes, our legal rights - have been examined more closely than Enron’s books.
But dads? OK, yes, I hear you. As males, they’ve had their day. In fact, they’ve had their millennia on issues involving pay, promotions, financial control and other legal rights. Yet as the genders have moved closer, thanks to our ardent activists, many dads have suffered a different fate since 1950.
Some have emerged confused, cutout Kens - without a Steinem or a Friedan to guide them.
Let’s look at our popular culture.
The ’50s: Ozzie’s having adventures, Ward’s leaving nothing to Beaver, Wally or the hapless June - not a bad idea, as they had the combined IQ of a beach umbrella - and even Desi is “Babalu”-ing Lucy’s schemes to get into show biz, which, of course, caused her to “Babalu” him back - or rather, behind his back.
Dads were simple then. We understood them. We understood the deal. Dads were benevolent dictators of teeny-tiny family kingdoms.
When they were good, their subjects put them on pedestals - after all, Father Knows Best, and when they were bad, well, we wacky, wacky women pretended to go along with it, then dust-busted them from behind with those vacuums.
Then came our liberation and as we grew in life . . . we grew on air. Like a master, shocked when his pet poodle suddenly lunges for his throat - TV dads were vilified, neutered and deposed by their subjects with a vengeance that rivals my reaction when someone in my house steals the last Ding Dong.
Let’s look at just a few.
Homer Simpson: As a dad, as a human (OK, cartoon), he ranks somewhere between amoeba and bowerbird on the evolutionary scale. Enough said (Hey, he’s a cartoon.). Also drawn in thin ink was Al Bundy, whose biggest achievement was bringing back the nose hair, and whose most surprising trait was his inability to outwit his wife.
Finally, the Lord of the Wimps, Ray Barone: OK, he’s a . . . harmless guy but no hero. Why? Because, he’s been “fixed” . . . neutered into a nerf ball by “Everybody (Who) Loves” him. Mostly . . . the moms.
Face it. What we now have are: Dumb Dads and the Smart Moms who love them.
On this past Father’s Day, I couldn’t help but muse that many dads have been given a raw deal and they didn’t even see it coming. Like most benevolent dictators, complacent in pipe and paychecks, they didn’t prepare by making fair adjustments for us moms.
So in correcting, it seems to me that we’ve overcorrected.
Don’t our children deserve to see images of dads who are strong, courageous, wise, fair and sensitive - without scepters or swords?
And don’t we all deserve to see the Dumb Dad go the way of Donna Stone and become as anachronistic as that dust buster and those pearls?

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An unexpected symptom of menopause increases

June 14, 2006

When it comes to menopause, most women worry about hot flashes. But doctors say an increasing number of women are discovering another unpleasant, and unexpected, symptom.

The decision of many women to abandon traditional menopause hormones in recent years has led to an increase in vaginal complications associated with a loss of estrogen, including dryness, itching and pain.

Estrogen helps prevent vaginal aging, but use of menopause hormones dropped by half after a major government study in 2002 linked hormone use among older women with heart attacks and other health problems. Doctors say many women who stopped hormone treatments are now surprised to find they are suffering from symptoms. It’s a “neglected” area of women’s health, says Lila Nachtigall, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University School of Medicine.

For some, the solution has been to return to hormones, but in a different form. Sales of vaginal hormone products have surged 9 percent in the past year even as the overall hormone market continues to drop, according to IMS Health, which provides data on prescription-drug use. Currently women can use estrogen creams, tablets or hormone-dispensing rings that are inserted into the vagina.

Even so, many doctors and women aren’t aware that these estrogen products are an option. Dr. Nachtigall said she just saw a patient who was suffering from recurrent urinary-tract infections. The woman had gone to a urologist who gave her antibiotics. The real problem, says Dr. Nachtigall, was that the woman had recently stopped hormone therapy. She was experiencing aging of the genital tissues, which was causing dryness and repeated infections. Dr. Nachtigall prescribed a vaginal estrogen that she believes will solve the woman’s problem.

Another reason such concerns are on the rise is the popularity of Viagra and other drugs for erectile dysfunction. Some older couples are engaging in intercourse after having gone long stretches without it. But as women age and natural estrogen drops, the vagina starts to atrophy and becomes less elastic, making sex painful or impossible.

“It’s very frequently an issue,” says Alan Altman, menopause expert and assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. “It’s very important if somebody is going to go on Viagra that either the clinician or the patient should know enough to ask” about the man’s partner.

Part of the problem is awareness. Women know that hot flashes are an obvious symptom of menopause, but for most women, hot flashes eventually go away as a woman’s estrogen levels stabilize. But few realize that every woman will experience some degree of vaginal atrophy as she ages.

Estrogen treatments are surprisingly effective at restoring the health of aging tissue. After regular use, women may be able to get by with occasional “maintenance” doses, but symptoms could return once a woman stops using the treatment. A recent study suggests women get more benefit if they start treatments relatively close to menopause, when estrogen levels are just beginning to drop.

Researchers looked at vaginal cells from women before and after menopause and showed that the cells respond differently to estrogen. Estrogen treatment on the cells of the postmenopausal women only partially restored cell function, while the premenopausal cells were fully restored, according to the report last year in the medical journal Menopause.

One question about the estrogen creams and rings is whether they pose the same or different health risks compared with estrogens taken by pill or patch. Warnings about health risks required by the Food and Drug Administration are the same for all estrogen products. But most experts say vaginal estrogens are delivered in a low enough dose that they likely have a minimal effect on the rest of the body. Vaginal estrogens typically won’t relieve hot flashes, and most doctors believe the treatments don’t carry the same risks of blood clots and other problems linked with oral and patch estrogen therapy, but little research has been done on the issue.

Women who still have a uterus may need extra monitoring in the early days of treatment. Estrogen use by itself is linked with a higher risk of uterine cancer. But most studies show that the majority of women who use a low-dose vaginal estrogen won’t experience a worrisome buildup of the uterine lining; if left untreated, such buildup can increase the risk of cancer. Even so, some doctors may use ultrasound monitoring to be sure. Others may advise women to alert them to spotting or bleeding problems that could signal early changes in the uterine lining.

While estrogen clearly makes a difference after menopause, it isn’t the only option for women. Regular use of nonhormonal lubricants and moisturizers have been shown in some studies to be just as effective as hormonal creams for reducing dryness and painful sex.

And it’s important to note that simply having sex fairly often also appears to help. Women who are more sexually active are less likely to experience vaginal atrophy as they age. Doctors call it the “use it or lose it” effect.

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Viagra: Potent Weapon to Kill Impotence

June 11, 2006

Erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence is generally a feeble condition of penile muscle. When you are suffering from it you cannot get or maintain penis erect enough for the process of sexual intercourse.

Generally, factors responsible for ED are classified under two classes such as psychogenic factors and physical factors. Psychological factors are depression, performance anxiety, marital stress or relationship problems, life crisis, financial difficulties, religious repression, or some type of mental illness. Whereas, physical factors are damage to nerves, arteries, smooth muscles, and fibrous tissues, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, kidney or liver disease, other vascular conditions, cigarette smoking, and excessive alcohol intake.

Until the late 1990s, effective oral medications for ED were not available. But treatment of ED is much easier now, thanks to a class of drugs called phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors. Viagra is most popular among the PDE-5 inhibitors. Viagra prevents the breakdown of nitric oxide, a chemical messenger that promotes relaxation and opening of the blood vessels that supply erectile tissue in the penis. Under the influence of nitric oxide, these vessels expand and stay dilated. Increased blood flow makes erectile tissue swell and compress the veins that carry blood out of the penis, resulting in a full erection.
Its dosage varies from person to person and mostly recommended dose is 50mg, some user may require the dose of 100mg. Viagra should be taken an hour before the sexual activity then after it works by increasing the blood flow to the penile muscle which make the penis erect and the effect of single dose of Viagra may last up to 4 hours.

You may get headache, facial flushing, and upset stomach with the use of Viagra. Use of Viagra may also result bluish vision, blurred vision, or sensitivity to light, but all these problems will go away after few hours. But, sometimes you may experience prolonged abnormal, painful erections medically known as priapism, if such problem persists for longer period; you must consult a doctor as soon as possible.

It is now easier for you to buy Viagra though the Internet. You can get Viagra in competitive market price and online buying is cheaper option than buying over-the-counter. You can get free online consultation, discount on cost price, safe and reliable shipment of drug to your doorsteps. If you are feeling embarrassed buying Viagra from the counter, buy it online, it is the best option for you as it ensures anonymity.

It is not sensible for you to compromise with ED when there are ample ways to treat it. Be smart and buy Viagra through online pharmacy, I assure you that you won’t regret using Viagra. Otherwise, you may be pressed down by other mental health problems like low self-esteem, sexual failure anxiety, and depression, stress and guilt and relationship conflicts.

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Dangers of recreational Viagra

June 5, 2006

As officials have dealt with a variety of dangerous drug use on college campuses across the country, a new trend is emerging among college students that health experts warn could lead to serious complications — the recreational use of erectile dysfunction medication.

While Viagra is medication mainly targeted toward impotent older men, recent studies conducted by the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital have found that one out of every 18 college-aged men have used Viagra or other sexual enhancement drugs such as Levitra or Cialis before. The research also concluded that half of the men using these medications were doing it recreationally for purposes of enhancing their sexual experience despite having no true medical problems below the belt.

The study was done on three different college campuse and a survey taken exclusively at IU turned up conflicting results of the severity of the use in Bloomington.

“In a questionnaire we asked over 6,000 men and women at IU if they had used Viagra (or similar drugs) and only 2% of men that say they have ever tried it,” said Erick Janssen, associate scientist and director of graduate studies at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. “It is a relatively small number of people who have done it regularly.”

Although the Kinsey Institute didn’t find the use of Viagra as prevalent on IU’s campus as the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital study did elsewhere, experts caution that those who do use Viagra as a party drug should be wary of the possible consequences.

The Chicago study found that 64% of college men who use Viagra recreationally are mixing it with other drugs that weaken the ability to perform sexually such as alcohol, cocaine and ecstasy. These drugs are known to increase sexual drive and reduce inhibitions, but weaken the ability to actually perform. That’s where Viagra steps in.

“I know of no problems mixing Viagra with alcohol. However, if you were doing cocaine, speed or ecstasy, the danger of Viagra is greatly increased,” said Dr. Rose Wenrich, a family practitioner.

Researchers found that those mixing Viagra with other drugs causes the user to be more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors that increase the chances of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, simply because recreational users that pop the pill with other drugs are less likely to wear a condom.

Because most people who are taking Viagra as a party drug are not actually prescribed it, Anne Reese, the director of Health and Wellness Education at the IU Health Center, said she theorizes that they are obtaining it from external sources, namely the Internet.

“The pharmacy here has only prescribed Viagra sporadically in the past year, therefore I am doubting that the larger group of people using it for recreational use are getting it from the health center or other physicians,” she said.

Another danger of taking Viagra without first consulting a doctor is that certain medications may have a negative reaction when taken with it and can cause dangerously low blood pressure, Reese said. These problematic medications are usually those used to treat heart problems. People who have any sort of heart or circulatory problems should steer clear of Viagra. Viagra also makes it possible to have more sex during a shorter period of time than men who don’t have erectile dysfunction would normally be capable of.

Viagra is only one of the many drugs that college students are using to enhance their sexual experiences.

“When you look at other drugs, the numbers are larger,” Janssen said. “Viagra is in that group but is not as widely used. One reason for that might be that it is not as easy to get as some other drugs, like marijuana for example, which we also found was being used to enhance the sexual experience.”

Health professionals are also concerned about the underlying issues as to why young, seemingly healthy men are feeling that they need to take drugs to intensify their sexual experiences.

“I know that students talk all the time about improving their sex lives and they want to know what they should do in order to do so,” Reese said. “Poor sexual performance at this age could be from a number of problems, such as excess alcohol or drugs, stress or even unknown diabetes, and Viagra is not the best solution in most of those situations.”

For most college-aged students, using Viagra recreationally probably doesn’t pose serious health risks.

“Viagra is among the least dangerous drugs,” Janssen said. “There are a lot of other drugs that students are taking that are much more likely to get them to engage in risky sexual behaviors.”

But not many studies have been done that can draw firm conclusions on long-term risks of non-impotent men taking anti-impotent drugs, so abusers should be cautious. In fact, other than the study conducted by the Chicago Memorial Children’s Hospital, there have been hardly any other conclusive studies completed.

“There is not very much that’s informative out there on this subject (and) there haven’t been many decent studies,” Janssen said. “One thing that may complicate this research is that while some men have no problem admitting that they have tried Viagra, a lot of men feel uncomfortable and won’t want to admit it. It may not be that easy to find out about.”

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Erectile dysfunction(ED) - Cause and Cure

June 3, 2006

Erectile dysfunction, sometimes called “impotence,” is the repeated inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. The word “impotence” may also be used to describe other problems that interfere with sexual intercourse and reproduction, such as lack of sexual desire and problems with ejaculation or orgasm. Using the term erectile dysfunction makes it clear that those other problems are not involved.

The physiological process of erection begins in the brain and involves the nervous and vascular systems. Physical or psychological stimulation causes nerves to send messages to the vascular system, which results in significant blood flow to the penis. Two arteries in the penis supply blood to erectile tissue and the corpora cavernosa, which become engorged and expand as a result of increased blood flow and pressure.

How erectile dysfunction is treated depends on what things are causing it. After your doctor checks you for medical problems and medicines that might cause erectile dysfunction, he or she may have you try a medicine to help with erectile dysfunction. Some of these medicines are injected into your penis. Other medicines are taken by mouth like Cialis and Viagra. Not everyone can use these medicines. Your doctor will help you decide if you can try them.

Successful treatment of sexual dysfunction has been demonstrated to improve sexual intimacy and satisfaction, improve sexual aspects of quality of life, improve overall quality of life, and relieve symptoms of depression. Treatment of ED depends on the cause. Testosterone supplements may be used for cases with hormonal deficiency. However, usually the cause is lack of adequate penile blood supply as a result of age-dependent damage of inner walls of blood vessels.

After all the information regarding the patient’s health status has been gathered, the various options in management can be discussed. This is best completed in the presence of the patient and his partner. Options include sexual counseling if no organic causes can be found for the dysfunction, oral medications, external vacuum devices, or some type of invasive therapy, including the use of intracavernosal injection therapy or the Medicated Urethral System for Erections (MUSE) intraurethral suppository. Gene therapy for ED is now being tested in several centers and may offer a long-lasting therapeutic approach for ED.

In the majority of cases, erectile dysfunction can be successfully treated. It is therefore important for patients to seek advice from their doctor, for the good of themselves, their partners and their relationships.

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Pharmacies don’t have Plan B when Viagra kicks in

June 1, 2006

By Mike Seate
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

If the spam in my inbox is any indication, there must be a virtual stampede of men at pharmacy counters, all clutching prescriptions for Viagra, Cialis and other drugs that make grown men behave like horny 11th graders.
The e-mail solicitations are not the disturbing part.

This outbreak of chemically induced mating is odd because it coincides with a trend where many pharmacists are flatly refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control. According to Jody Hirsh, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, some 33 percent of pharmacies in the state would not order emergency contraceptive drugs for female customers.

Their survey of 261 pharmacies also found that roughly half could not fill a prescription for the emergency contraceptive drug Preven, Hirsh said. This was either due to a philosophical refusal to stock the drug or a lack of awareness concerning availability.

“By contrast, male enhancement drugs like Viagra and Cialis are covered by most health insurance plans, and that’s something that hasn’t been available for female contraceptives since 1968 when the pill was first introduced,” she said.

You don’t have to be a beady-eyed conspiracy theorist to suspect that there’s a double standard at play here. Search as I might, but I could find no evidence of a pharmacist, in Pittsburgh or anywhere else in the state, getting all moral when it comes to providing men with the drugs they need to potentially get women pregnant. Hirsh said Planned Parenthood has not conducted a survey to this end, but she’s yet to hear a complaint from an angry local man who was denied access to enhancement drugs at his neighborhood pharmacy.

It’s hard to imagine this not happening. If a pharmacist refuses emergency contraception to a female customer because the druggist feels non-procreative sex is immoral, logic would suggest he’d also refuse a dose of Cialis to an unmarried or divorced male customer.

But for that to happen, we’d need to live in a world where issues of contraception and sexuality were handled by people acting like rational adults, instead of grown men, behaving like a bunch of horny 11th graders.

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