Fuck Viagra! You don't need it. Nobody does. You'd be better off taking a placebo, garnering some confidence, and heading into a sexual skirmish.
We're talkin' a drug here with numerous side effects, and only one benefit. With or without Vegas odds, that's a terrible return. Still, this shit must be sellin', since the corporation that produces it has the cash to run television commercials that play on credulous minds.
Viagra is more easy to figure out than a two piece puzzle.
Watch, or read, an advertisement for this little blue implement from Hell. Make note of which demographic is targeted. Males obviously, but which males in particular?
Married men. Specifically, betrothed, middle-aged men. One might conclude this equates to erectile dysfunction for this age group, but that's what the makers of Viagra want you to think. It means money in their pockets, when some 50 year old can't get it up once, fears he has a problem, and runs to Dr. Kevorkian for pharmaceutical salvation.
Look at this logically, though. Due to fucked-up societal pressure, most men 40, 50, and 60 are either married, or have been. Consequently, they're having sex with the same partner over, and over, and over. Hence, tedium. Hence, boredom.
I love certain books, but I can only read 'em so many times, before the anticipation is all but stripped from their plots.
It's the same with marriage. Hump one woman hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times, and you're gonna lose interest. This is simple rationale most people don't stop to consider, when binding themselves by law, in a monogamous commitment.
Makers of Viagra, and analogous drugs, are aware married, middle-aged men — resultant of protracted periods of matrimony — will become bored. As such, these snake oil salesmen play on the weaknesses of this demographic, informing them they have an actual affliction.
Married? Been so for a while? Having a hard time obtaining an erection?