Clearly, the drug’s effect is highly individual. And there is growing concern that for some users it may be psychologically addictive. In America, Jerry Springer was one of the first to go public with a claim of dependency on Viagra, and more recently the lurid evidence in the trial of the murderers of the 66-year-old Earl of Shaftesbury included allegations that his addiction to a combination of Viagra and testosterone had turned him from a kindly old man into a compulsive “dragueur”, prowling the ritzy clubs of the Côte d’Azur in search of high-class prostitutes. The party that led to the death of Stuart Lubbock at the home of the disgraced Michael Barrymore also involved Viagra. And in the US, a rise in HIV in elderly men has been attributed to it, though Pfizer has so far resisted demands for safe-sex warnings on packaging.
Raoul Felder, a New York divorce lawyer, claims to have dealt with over 100 “viagramony” divorces. Rates of sexually transmitted disease in pensioners are increasing in affluent retirement communities where invigorated elderly men finding themselves shunned by their elderly wives are picking up prostitutes. “You get them cruising the red-light area looking for prostitutes and contracting venereal diseases,” says Felder. “Not surprisingly, that too leads to divorce.”
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From the London Sunday Times: Viagra nation
Clearly, the drug’s effect is highly individual. And there is growing concern that for some users it may be psychologically addictive. In America, Jerry Springer was one of the first to go public with a claim of dependency on Viagra, and more recently the lurid evidence in the trial of the murderers of the 66-year-old Earl of Shaftesbury included allegations that his addiction to a combination of Viagra and testosterone had turned him from a kindly old man into a compulsive “dragueur”, prowling the ritzy clubs of the Côte d’Azur in search of high-class prostitutes. The party that led to the death of Stuart Lubbock at the home of the disgraced Michael Barrymore also involved Viagra. And in the US, a rise in HIV in elderly men has been attributed to it, though Pfizer has so far resisted demands for safe-sex warnings on packaging.
Raoul Felder, a New York divorce lawyer, claims to have dealt with over 100 “viagramony” divorces. Rates of sexually transmitted disease in pensioners are increasing in affluent retirement communities where invigorated elderly men finding themselves shunned by their elderly wives are picking up prostitutes. “You get them cruising the red-light area looking for prostitutes and contracting venereal diseases,” says Felder. “Not surprisingly, that too leads to divorce.”
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