12.15.2003

"She was very wired — a Samantha on `Sex and the City'-type thing" -- a fairly irksome article from yesterday's NYTimes Style Section on yet another manufactured-for-the-fluff-pages phenomenon, in this case younger, healthy men taking Viagra to ward off performance anxiety. Skipping lightly over the illicit, potentially heart-stopping misuse of a prescription drug, the author chalks up this trend to men's "fear of wilting in the face of a new wave of sexually empowered women" and " the acceleration of dating rhythms," whatever the hell that is. So let me get this right: men are anxious about being judged by their partners? Boo hoo hoo, fellas. Here's another gem: "But even those who successfully keep their use of impotence drugs secret from their partners have found that the medications only go so far in making relationships work." Shocking!

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