News (and views) on animal magnetism Coat-pocket sexual "chemistry"… My, how sex has changed. I remember not all that long ago when it was a thing to be awed - a thing that wasn't analyzed, obsessed over, put on talk shows, or done on the clock or on medication, like it is so often today… I swear, for a thing that's so joyful and life-affirming, it seems to me that with all our prescription drugs and videotapes and toys and plastic surgeries and magazine articles and TV shows and Internet sites devoted to our sexuality, we've squeezed the very essence - the very soul - out of it. There's no mystery anymore, no allure. And even though (for right or wrong) it's done more often by more people young and old than ever in history, sex nowadays seems to give many less pleasure than anxiety. Less fulfillment than frustration. To me, that's a real shame. And not to add to the list of ways in which we've cheapened, packaged, governed and homogenized our love lives, but there's now a new sex aid on the horizon. According to a recent article in the UK Guardian, a colorless, odorless spray called may soon be all the rage for on-demand sex. Oddly enough, the drug is based on a chemical isolated from another drug that was designed to give people a tan without having to expose themselves to any sunlight! Purported to work equally well for both men and women, this new chemical has been shown to spur sexual desire and activity within minutes of administration in both laboratory animals and a limited number of human subjects. Not yet approved by the FDA, PT-141 appears to affect the brain's sex center, not blood flow to the sex organs (like other libido drugs). According to its maker, the drug is unaffected by the consumption of food or alcohol. Yeah, this is just what we need - an inhaled sex drug that works for both men and women in minutes, has no risk of harmful interactions with booze, and is easy to conceal in a pocket. I wonder how many nanoseconds it'll take for this drug to become all the rage in the young hipster set once it is approved. Like they need any help getting it on! I'm telling you, this is just another step down the road that takes us to a place where our natural urges and mechanisms are conditioned out of us. With this new fast-acting spray (sounds like an oven cleaner, doesn't it?), coitus becomes a matter of calculation, not stimulation. Unlike some of the natural libido herbs I've been known to recommend to give a little extra "surge to the urge," this product transforms the urge itself into a trick of chemistry. This squarely controverts nature, and no good can come of it. But a powerful NATURAL sex aid did come to light in one of the animal studies that tested PT-141. Keep reading…
Honey, here's the MasterCard - I'll be waiting in the bedroom
In one of the animal studies related to the testing of PT-141, rodent "sexologists" devised a plan to closely replicate human interactions: They gave female rats autonomy from the males. By altering rat enclosures to allow the females to access the male's quarters whenever they pleased - but prohibiting the males from being able to enter the female's quarters entirely - researchers granted total control over the frequency and circumstances of sex to the females… Their finding: That this autonomy was as powerful an aphrodisiac as the PT-141 chemical. Hmmm. The more privacy, freedom, and control the female has, the more nookie the male gets. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? It's so 70s, so women's lib - like an X-rated episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show or something. If men would just figure this out, they'd have no need of sex sprays or little blue pills… But if they haven't tuned in to this notion yet, I guarantee they won't before the new miracle sex spray hits the market. After that, all bets are off. Reminiscing "the day" -- dismissing the spray, William Campbell Douglass II, MD
Sources:
"FDA OKs Pfizer Anti-Smoking Pill" Associated Press, 5/11/06, ap.org
"Charles Tells Doctors of the World to Use Alternative Treatments" Severin Carrell, The Independent, 5/15/06, news.independent.co.uk | 
