The Dangers Lurking in Male Sexual Supplements

[longknife]

By Maia SzalavitzMay 16, 2013

The great claims may often cause far more harm than good.

“Rock Hard” and similar so-called “natural” supplements for men often contain potentially dangerous drugs — some of which have never been tested on animals, let alone humans.

In an editorial published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a colleague collected some of the lesser known facts about an industry that produces millions of pills — and likely generates tens of millions, if not billions of dollars in profits— but is almost entirely free of government oversight.

Read more: The Dangers Lurking in Male Sexual Supplements | TIME.com

 

[Big Black Dog]

Some of those supplements work pretty well. We had some unexpected company for lunch one day and I didn't know what to feed them. I looked in the fridge and all there was left in it was a single hot dog. I took the hot dog out and shoved a Viagra pill into it. Within minutes it had turned into a roll of bologna so I sliced it up and made sandwiches out of it.