Herbal Viagra contains dangerous chemicals
Wired News reports that the "herbal viagra" spammers like to peddle contain "unnatural chemicals" that "can affect the cardiovascular system or interact with other drugs" and "are quite dangerous."
This isn't too surprising. Spammers would happily sell cyanide to kids if they could make a buck from it. The real reason I liked this story is for the atrocious and infantile puns in the comments section of the story. That said, I think Boing Boing's members can give Wired's members some stiff competition in this department. Link
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seems too hard to come up with anything funnier than those throbbing members over at wired. any joke i could erect would be in vein and they'd surely feel i was giving them the shaft, which would leave me feeling morally flaccid. maybe the rest of you can engorge them with laughter. if so, i bet you'll be beating the fans off with both hands!
priapism!
sincerely,
diggum
It all depends on whether they can make it stand up in court.
Anyone dying from penis pills they bought from a spammer is (hopefully) Darwining themselves outta the gene pool.
...uh, boner? I'm no good at puns.
This story is a bit hard to swallow.....
Clearly, a stiff punishment must be introduced. Preferably, the hammer of justice would be behind it. Hopefully they will soon find themselves members of the penile system.
not touching this with a ten foot...
So, they could conceivably lead to either a good or bad stoke? Keep in mind that there's a vas deferens between the two types.
Oh, come on! It's not like you were personally screwed by these guys! Sure, anyone can f*** up occasionally- it's not that hard. A little boning up on the legal system could have gone a long way, though. I predict heads will bow in shame and careers will fall flat.
I HARDly see how this qualifies as news.
mod diggum up!!!
we can't keep this up for long.
Unlike all the other supposed herbal preparations (I won't dignify them by calling them remedies or medicines) at least these actually do something.
If alternatives to medicine worked, they wouldn't be alternatives. If you have a problem, go to a REAL DOCTOR.
Some hard journalism.
My mind is titilated thinking about it. I think I'm getting a boner.
He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
"I think Boing Boing's members can give Wired's members some stiff competition..." Oh lord, save us from bad puns :)
Help, I've fallen and get get it up...Need herbs now...
It would be nice if we could edit our posts...I hate when I make a typo and can't fix it!
I'm sickened by the fact that people are profiting from this trouser snake oil.
A standing ovation to anyone who can work in a pearly penile papules joke, by the way. I would be pleased to see that.
I agree, Apreche. Herbal "medicines" just make me engorged with anger. Is that a Bill Hicks paraphrase, by the way?
This comment thread has become rather turgid.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the drugs could be dangerous?
The scientists only told Wired News that "none of those molecules have been tested in rigorous safety studies." And even then, even Wired admits that it's only "a pinch" of these molecules in their mostly-herbal confections.
But maybe I just like the romantic idea of European gypsy love potions based on folk chemistry -- instead of the notion that all hard-ons must originate from Pfizer.
Ob Penis joke: The scientist asks whether they should be pulled? (From the market...)
Only if Jocelyn Elders does the pulling.
When I read a story like this, I just want to say
"Duh!"
Really. Who would actually buy fake viagra from a spam email? Who?
Well, I guess we all know now that there really is no faking it.
Who would actually buy fake viagra from a spam email?
I talked to a woman last week who thought that Nigerian scams were legitimate lottery winning notices. Really.
You know, when Viagra first made the news, I'd hoped it would help save endangered creatures like rhinos and all the other poor beasties who seem to be ingredients in traditional rod stiffeners. Alas, it was not to be.
I think all Viagra has really done is increased the incidence of cystitis in elderly women.
Oh, and I thought it could make you go blind. Or was that from playing with yourself?
@ #15
SOLID gold The Steve - I love those skits.
#21 "Who would actually buy fake viagra from a spam email?"
People with wood in their heads instead of their pants?
Hmm, if memory serves, it is the real Viagra that "can affect the cardiovascular system or interact with other drugs"...
The surprising part of the story is that fake drugs would contain any active ingredients at all; in a market of lemons, one would expect them to be the cheapest stuff available, not anything with any real effects.
I thought the online viagra sellers just took your money but never sent the drugs.
Oh, and Destiny (20)? The quest for effective aphrodisiacs has been going on more or less continuously throughout recorded history, which means it's really been going on for a lot longer than that. If anyone had a magic herbal formula that worked, we'd either know about it, or overharvesting would have long since driven the plant to extinction.
the best aphrodisiacs are: health, youth, money and desire.
You can imagine my distress