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Man Accused of Calling 911 and Explicitly Describing Viagra Overdose
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsPolice hope a man in Florida will think long and hard before he prank calls 911 again. Investigators in Broward County say 28-year-old Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. is responsible for two obscene 911 calls in which a man graphically described symptoms -- and raunchy home remedies -- following an alleged overdose on the impotence drug Viagra. Douglas is accused of calling 911 after midnight on Jan. 16, giving a fake name and address, and claiming he needed medical help because he had swallowed too many little blue pills, according to a police report posted on the Broward Sheriff's Office website. ...
Septuagenarian Becomes Oldest Actor Ever in Porn Hall of Fame
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe phrase "do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" seems completely apropos for porn actor Dave Cummings. Although Cummings (born David Connors) turns 71 in a few weeks, an age when many of his contemporaries have retired, he is still working hard at his craft, almost 17 years after entering what insiders refer to simply as "the industry." The efforts have paid off: Cummings is one of this year's inductees in the X-Rated Critics Organization's Hall of Fame Class of 2011, an honor handed out to, as the press release says, "only the best and brightest in the world of ...
'Ask a Curator' Twitter Experiment Hijacked by Viagra?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- Can Twitter, the oft-superficial, 140-character-limited microblog, help to bring the rich, lengthy history of some of the world's finest museums into the 21st century? That was, at least, the goal of "Ask a curator," the global, virtual Q-and-A going on right now in which Twitter users are able to shoot off their museum-related queries to curators of 343 different institutions worldwide, including the Guggenheim in New York City and more specific sites like the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The exercise is supposed to work like this: 1. Visit Askacurator.com 2. Click on "Ask ...
The Desire Pill Controversy: Whose Body Is It, Anyway?
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyIn response to my post about the pharmaceutical industry working on a sexual desire drug for women, a flurry of readers have weighed in on the role of an industry through which male pleasure has been long served. For over a decade, men have been able to treat erectile dysfunction with Viagra, Cialis, and other such medications. Many female readers expressed anger and frustration over the fact that women don't have a comparable drug for decreased desire (although Viagra and a desire pill are not medically equivalent, they are often seen as socially comparable, since both drugs ostensibly ...
Study: Men with Erectile Dysfunction Pose Higher STD Threat
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 6) -- Impotence and immunity are not synonymous -- and someone might want to inform the Viagra-poppers of America. U.S. men taking medication to treat erectile dysfunction are being diagnosed with twice as many sexually transmitted diseases as their non-flaccid peers. That's the sobering conclusion of a new study, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Older men, who struggle to achieve erection, are also harboring conditions like gonorrhea and chlamydia in record numbers. What gives? Just how many men have STDs? If you must know, researchers followed 1.4 million men ...
Lady Viagra and Lust: Sex Pill for Women Arouses Batty Ideas
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailySex talk always brings out lies, theories, stereotypes and all sorts of guesswork – especially about women's sexuality. Lately everyone is babbling about Lady Viagra, a pill that might do for women what the little blue pill Viagra does for men – give them eternal sexual energy. Just think! Not so fast. The Food and Drug Administration, as my colleague Alison Fairbrother discusses, recently held up the marketing of the drug flibanserin in the United States, but allowed more research and conceded that the female pill may have some benefits. Though it's not yet available, there's been ...
Female Sex Pill: For Loss of Libido, or Drug Companies' Bottom Line?
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyThe perennial question, 'What if there was a female version of Viagra?" remains unanswered, but at least two leading ladies tried to take it on over the weekend. In response to an FDA advisory panel's recent decision not to approve filbanserin, a female desire drug, New York Times writer Natasha Singer suggested that reduced libido in some women might be a symptom of a disease known as "men don't know how to please their partners." As Politics Daily's Luisita Lopez Torregrosa writes, noted feminist Camille Paglia served up some of her own stereotypes, stating that well-off white folks are ...
FDA Panel Unimpressed by 'Female Viagra'
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyThe Food and Drug Administration has some serious questions for a company that's recently launched an aggressive marketing campaign for a female counterpart to Viagra. Boehringer Ingelheim, a German drug-making monolith, wants to see their drug -- flibanserin -- available by prescription for women suffering from lagging sex drives. But the FDA isn't so sure that flibanserin passes muster. In a preliminary review of the drug, released today, an FDA panel questioned both its safety and effectiveness. Side effects, including drowsiness and sedation, were "commonly reported" by patients in two ...
FDA Will Consider Approval of 'Female Viagra'
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(May 24) -- The little blue pill, responsible for revving up millions of male sex drives, might soon have a female counterpart. But when it comes to a carnal cure for women, "the brain is the most important sexual organ." At least, that's the marketing strategy behind flibanserin, a drug designed to boost lagging sex drives among premenopausal women. The drug will soon be considered for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, although questions linger over how it has been tested, and whether the illness it treats is even credible. German company Boehringer Ingelheim, which created the ...
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