Curious Women Are Seeing if Viagra Works Wonders for Them

RECENTLY, eight female friends in their 30’s and 40’s gathered for lunch at Coco Pazzo Teatro on West 46th Street. After two weeks of rain, the sun was shining, the women were in high spirits, and after one showed a picture of the man she is dating (an underwear model), talk turned to spring fever, love, sex — and Viagra.

”I’d try it,” one woman said, sipping a Kir royale.

”I’d try it, too,” chimed in another, a pink flush creeping up her decolletage.

”After amyl nitrate in college, why not?” burbled another.

The waiter lingered a little too long while clearing the salad plates, eager to eavesdrop, and the point was made. Everyone is awfully curious about what the male potency pill might do for women.

The scientific community is curious, too. Just as Viagra helps men with erectile dysfunction by increasing blood flow to the penis, it causes blood to flow to women’s sexual organs, potentially increasing sensitivity.

But even before the results are in from studies of the drug’s effect on women’s sexual arousal and satisfaction, a number of women, inevitably, are stepping into the breach on their own to try it. They do not necessarily complain of sexual dysfunction, but simply want to satisfy their curiosity.

There are no figures available on how many women are experimenting with off-label use of Viagra, but call any urologist who has written Viagra prescriptions for men and you will hear of a wife, a partner or a girlfriend who has tried it.

This handful of women around the country have access to Viagra because their partners (or generous friends) have prescriptions, or their profession allows them access to prescription drugs. And they are willing to try it out, despite doctors’ warnings that no one knows what the potential long-term side effects might be for women.

Take Dr. Susan C. Vaughan, 34, a psychiatrist in Manhattan. She considers herself a healthy, normal woman. Everything that should work, does.

But come to think of it, she said she wouldn’t mind trying Viagra.

”I’ve come across a number of women who are curious about it,” Dr. Vaughan said. ”Some of them are taking Prozac or similar drugs, and find that those medications are affecting their sexual response. And then there are lots of normal women who are, frankly, just curious. They’re wondering: ‘How good can this get? Can it get even better?’ ”

A 42-year-old nurse in New Jersey, who like most women in this article refused to be quoted except on condition of anonymity, said she tried Viagra for the first time last weekend. She wanted to be able to discuss the drug’s effects with patients; she also thought it might help with the fact that she is reluctant to have sex at certain times in her menstrual cycle.

”I only see my boyfriend every two weeks because we live in different states,” she explained. ”And if I’m not in the mood on one of those weekends, well, then there goes the month. I’ve been with him for about two and a half years, and it’s just not as exciting as it used to be.”

Last Saturday night, she swallowed a blue, diamond-shaped Viagra pill, which she sneaked from a cache in the office where she works. The dosage was 50 milligrams, the standard for male sexual dysfunction. She chose not to tell her partner. ”We were watching television, just a regular movie,” she said, noting that after an hour she began to feel ”a fullness. I can’t say it was a tingling, but it was some effect of the increased blood flow to the area.” The couple retreated to the bedroom, and the pill began to work its alleged magic.

”I have to say it was great,” the woman said. ”It was animalistic. I can definitely say it was not a placebo effect. I’m a nurse, and I’m trained to recognize those things.” Of the side effects reported by male users of Viagra — a drop in blood pressure, a mild headache, a blue tint to the vision, a flushed face — she reported only one: exceedingly rosy cheeks, which she explained to her boyfriend as springtime allergies. She has no hesitancy about trying the drug again, despite doctors’ warnings that women of childbearing age should not take the drug. ”I’ve had children, and I was using birth control,” she explained.

Dr. Jennifer Berman, a urologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, is conducting a study of the effects of Viagra on women who have some level of sexual dysfunction and is giving the drug only to those who have had hysterectomies or are postmenopausal.

”We’re not giving it to women of childbearing potential because we’re just not sure of the effects on women of childbearing age,” she said.

Dr. Stanley Bloom, a urologist in Livingston, N.J., who plans to study the effects of Viagra on women, uses harsher warnings. ”There’s a lot of curiosity and there’s going to be more and more experimentation,” he said. ”I see a lot of men, and invariably some of them are going to give it to their partners. But we should be cautious. Do you remember thalidomide? You can’t be too blase with this stuff. No one could have foreseen the disastrous effects of that drug.”

A freelance writer in Manhattan tried Viagra 10 days ago because she felt that Prozac, which she has been taking for more than a year, had dampened her sexual ardor. Notably, she also chose not to tell her partner.

”I was sort of embarrassed to tell him,” the writer said. ”I didn’t want him to think that he was part of the problem.” The writer procured a Viagra tablet from a male friend who is taking the drug because of impotence. ”It made me hypersensitive, and therefore more aware of his touch,” the writer reported. ”It didn’t make me hornier, per se, but because everything was more sensitive, it made me more receptive.” She cautioned, however, that ”it was almost too much. I was almost distracted by how sensitive the whole area had become.”

Barbara Tovak, a physical therapist in Newport Beach, Calif., tried Viagra last week and said it helped with the occasional lack of lubrication from which she suffers. But she is wary of long-term side effects.

”I’ll try anything once, but I’m afraid of becoming dependent on it, and the whole fen-phen thing really scared me last year,” she said, referring to the diet drug combination withdrawn from the market because of concerns about heart problems.

A woman who is an editor at a men’s magazine in Manhattan said that she tried Viagra because it takes her a long time to reach climax during intercourse. Without Viagra, it takes about an hour and a half, she said. With Viagra, it took half that time. But it was not without its side effects. ”I saw blue,” the editor said. ”If you look at photography, there’s a certain style that has a blue tint to it. That’s what it looked like. And I also got a mild pressure headache.”

She also said she felt compelled to try Viagra because she felt left out of the medical community’s concern about male potency. ”Look at men,” she said. ”The wind changes direction and they have an orgasm. What about us? Why isn’t anyone paying attention to our sexual feelings?”

Several studies are under way to examine Viagra’s effects on women. Dr. Berman’s study, which is supported by a grant from the American Foundation of Urologic Disease, was scheduled to begin in July, but so many women clamored to join that she had to open the program early.

And Dr. Vaughan has worked a bit of Viagra-like magic on the book publishing industry in recent weeks. Three weeks ago, Simon & Schuster got in touch with her to write a book about Viagra; she wrote a 65,000-word manuscript in less than two weeks. Finished copies of ”Viagra: A Guide to the Phenomenal Potency-Promoting Drug,” complete with a lengthy chapter on potential benefits for women, are scheduled to arrive at her publisher’s office tomorrow and in bookstores on Tuesday.

”I’m certainly curious about Viagra, and I’ll probably try it,” Dr. Vaughan said. ”I just haven’t been able to afford having a headache anytime in the last two weeks.”

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Shopping for reading glasses can be a crossroad for many people. They can go to their local store and purchase a lower costing pair. Another option would be going to a specialized optical shop and spending more money.

People worry that they won’t look as good in the cheap ones, or that they won’t get their money’s worth if they go down the high road.

How to choose the best lens for your needs

This involves determining what sort of lenses will best suit your lifestyle. An example would include a person with a prescription including a value in the Add area. This means that a different lens is required for distance and up close vision. In this situation you may benefit from a lens called multifocal (also known as varifocal and progressive lens) which has graded vision from distance to near in the one lens.

Progressive lenses

It should be noted that this type of lens generally requires an adjustment period to adapt too. It has no lines to make the distinctions between different prescriptions so cosmetically it looks like a normal single vision lens. There is limited peripheral or side vision in these lenses and people can have difficulty with certain tasks such as reading supine or playing golf. If these activities are a priority then obtaining a pair of single vision glasses specifically designed for the task is beneficial.

As this type of lens requires a measurement of ‘fitting height’ (the position of your pupil in the frame) that can not be completed virtually as yet I do not believe that people will achieve their optimum vision if these lenses are not fitted by an optometrist or optical dispenser in person. This is the reason that we only sell single vision lenses.

Bifocal Lenses

Bifocals are lenses designed to facilitate vision at 2 different distances. Generally the distances are over 3m away (distance) and ~40cm (near). These two different powers are separated by a distinct line. Bifocals also need to be fitted in person in my opinion for the same reasons as progressives. It can be quite disconcerting having a bifocal line in your field of view (fitted too high) and alternatively annoying having a bifocal too low in the frame to be of use when reading.

Single Vision lenses

Firstly we should explain single vision glasses means that the lens only contains one prescription, so it is designed for best vision at one specific distance. For example reading glasses are generally designed for best clarity at 40cm. Therefore if you want to use your reading glasses on the computer which can be up to 1m from your eye the vision would not be as clear as it should be, if the glasses were made for that specific task. Due to the fact that the closer the working distance the more magnification required meaning that you will have to practically sit closer than normal comfortable working distance from the screen to make it clear.

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To get the best possible outcome measure the distance from your eye to the object that needs to be clear (for example books, computer screen and sheet music) and take that measurement to your optometrist so that the prescription can be designed for your specific task distance.

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Generics - wright or wrong?

It’s all because of money

Features of original patent protection for drugs only and not necessarily Viagra, is an agency of state control Indeed, the company-developer of original drug can be understood. The enormous funds that are spent on search molecule drugs, the study medication; it’s withdrawal on the market, careful monitoring of possible adverse effects and interactions, in a few years, when patent protection continues to operate, are seemingly irretrievably lost. On the other hand producers of generics does not bear these costs, but simply as a parasite enjoys all the “complacent” invented drug that studies show is no different from the original. But we should not be a shame for it, according to which all our inventions  - those that have gone to serve for the benefit of mankind absolutely gratis

Generic (similar) drug, which often begin to reproduce several companies simultaneously, “inherits” all those properties, those forces cost, time and money, and that the original product. And you can arbitrarily assert that the original is always original, and reproduced means - only reproduced means. Total international nonproprietary name makes these drugs similar to the consumer, rather generic, because of the typically lower prices, more attractive, as with drugs to enhance potency.

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Sperm

Semen contains small amounts of more than thirty elements, including fructose, ascorbic acid, cholesterol, creatine, citric acid, lactic acid, nitrogen, vitamin B12, and various salts and enzymes.

Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.

There are five calories in a teaspoon of semen.

Average speed of ejaculation: 28 miles per hour; Time it takes the sperm to travel the distance: 2.5 seconds.

Distance sperm travels to fertilize an egg: 3-4 inches

It takes a sperm one hour to swim 7 inches.

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About one per cent of women can orgasm solely through breast stimulation.

30% of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.

Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth.

Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex than high school dropouts. (Amazing what one learns in college).

Women are most likely to want to have sex when they are ovulating.

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand than those with only a Bachelor’s degree.

According to Penthouse magazine, more women complain about infrequent sex than men do. Forty percent of women have said they had an orgasm while dreaming about sex. That number is 80% for men.

The frequency with which a woman has orgasms during her sleep actually increases as she ages during her childbearing years.

According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men

It’s been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.

A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller (because of the release of endorphins), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex

Women’s health 

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Sexual Facts about Men

A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing half a trillion sperm, in his lifetime

Men are six times more likely than women to peruse sexually explicit material on the Internet

The smallest erect penis on record was just 1cm long

Three out of a thousand men (0.3%) are well endowed enough to fellate (blow) themselves to orgasm

According to recent surveys, the man is the most likely partner to be tied up during sex

Among primates, man has the largest and thickest penis

Studies have shown that men become sexually aroused nearly every time they dream.

Studies show that, for some unknown reason, the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.

The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.

At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent.

A man’s testicles increase in size by 50% when he is aroused.

The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is true for lefties.

56% of men have had sex at work.

Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200; Average # of times he will ejaculate from masturbation: 2,000.

Average length of penis when not erect: 3.5 inches; Average length when erect: 5.1.

Percent of men who say they masturbate: 60% (the other 39% lied).

Percent of men who say they masturbate at least once a day: 54%.

Amount of time needed for a man to regain erection: from 2 minutes to 2 weeks.

Average # of erections per day for a man: 11.

Average # of erections during the night: 9.

Odors that increase blood flow to the penis: sildenafil, lavender, tadalafil, licorice, vardenafil, chocolate, doughnuts, pumpkin pie.

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