Boing: Valentine's Day Inspires Spike in Viagra Prescriptions
What's the American guy's popular choice for a super-awesome Valentine's Day gift? Chose one: A) Chocolate B) Roses or C) Dick in a box?
NBC Justin Timberlake demonstrates the steps for a proper Valentine's Day gift.
The modern man is so sensitive, romantic, and tuned into the feminine psyche these days. So you know the correct answer is C.
How do we know this? A look at statistics finds that Viagra and Cialis prescriptions seem to, uh, rise just before Valentine's day:
Bloomberg Is that a blue pill in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Bloomberg News did the number crunching and found that early to mid-February was the season of both erectile health and romance for the American dude.
Well, we can cut the guys a little slack. Turns out they feel that on this special day the pressure to perform is, well, large.
Bloomberg:
Stress, guilt and fear of failure can exacerbate the disorder, especially around the holiday when men feel their love is being tested, said Gail Wyatt, a certified sex therapist and psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles."It's almost like: 'This is Valentine's Day, so I must have sex,'" Wyatt said in a telephone interview. "All of this is media and marketing promoted, and I think we need to get back to what's really important in life, and that's really just being with people we care about."
By the way, Viagra still outsold Cialis $1.9 to $1.7 billion last year.
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