So Where's The Little Pink Pill?

May, 2015

The Magic Little Blue PillNot since birth control has a medication so seriously transformed America's sex life. I But why are VIAGRA's side effects more cultural than physical? j Before Viagra, you had tiger penises. Dried, boiled in soup or infused in brandy, the big cat's phallus was said to turn men into sexual tigers. Casanova slurped 50 raw oysters a day to fuel his sex life. The Marquis de Sade fed Spanish fly, a genital irritant made from ground beetles, to prostitutes who caught his eye...

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