A couple of nice articles dealing with Viagra and other drugs from the Washington Post
Drug Sparks Questions of Sexual Politics
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 26, 1998; Page A01
Overnight, Viagra, the new drug developed by
Pfizer Inc. to combat male impotence, has
become the topic of evening news programs,
late-show comedy monologues, cocktail party
conversations, online chat rooms and pillow talk
in bedrooms everywhere. Once some of the
curiosity -- and the demand -- is satisfied,
though, the drug could produce changes far
more wide-ranging than originally intended.
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Prescription for a Better Life
By Justin Gillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 26, 1998; Page A01
Find a sympathetic doctor these days and head down to
the corner drugstore with a few prescriptions in hand,
and you can walk out with a sack of goodies that
promise to make life better.
There's Propecia, a $50-a-month treatment to make a
balding man's hair grow back. There's a prescription
cream called Retin-A to make wrinkles fade. There's
Prozac for positive thinking and a new drug that can
make folks thinner.
And now, of course, there is Viagra, an impotence treatment that some
urologists believe will make sex better even for men who aren't impotent.
For that matter, it may make sex better for women who take it.
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