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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (2512)	5/16/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9523

(Reuters, Bonn, Germany)Doctor says sex pill could become "lifestyle drug" Saturday May 16, 1:44 PM GMT BONN, May 16 (Reuters) - Viagra, the new impotence wonder drug, may be so effective that it could become a lifestyle drug, a German doctor said at the weekend, warning that great care must be taken in prescribing it. Professor Hartmut Porst, a Hamburg urologist, told Spiegel magazine the sex pill could cure the most hopeless cases of male impotence. "This pill opens a new era," Porst said in an interview due to be released on Monday. "I have been working in this area for 18 years and I never thought this possible." The drug, produced by Pfizer, is already selling in record volumes in the United States. Delighted users include former U.S. senate leader Bob Dole. Viagra, which has yet to be approved for use in Germany, works by improving the flow of blood to a man's penis, enabling him to get and maintain a reliable erection. "I and my colleagues have tried out this drug, and the pill decisively improves sexual performance," Porst said. "Erection is harder, quicker and longer lasting. Almost every sexually active man will want to try this drug." Porst warned that Viagra could end up becoming a kind of lifestyle drug and said the onus was on doctors to be extremely careful in prescribing it. "Porn stars, in red-light districts, at parties, among swingers. Nobody can stop it," he said. "No pill has ever come onto the market with such potential for abuse." He added that he had already refused to prescribe the pill to sex tourists planning to travel to Asia and to a former sexual offender. He also said he had refused to give the drug to a man who had contracted AIDS but did not have a long-term partner. "There was a risk he would infect someone else and I as a doctor did not want to take that responsibility," Porst said. yahoo.co.uk