If your erection lasts for more than 4 hours...

[Pangloss62]

The idea that Viagra and its clones are drugs only for men is simply silly. The whole point of Viagra is to make sure you can maintain an erection long enough to bring your woman "friend" to orgasm. Women have been waiting for a drug like that for years. Men are so sensitive about their natural performance that they turned normal sexual response into a lucrative business (hold off on that AIDS research Jim, we've got a good one here!). Alfred Kinsey may have been a bit eccentric, and may have even fudged some numbers, but much of his "report" contains valid data. Consider this:

"For perhaps three-quarters of all males, orgasm is reached within two minutes after the initiation of the sexual relation, and for a not inconsiderable number of males the climax may be reached within less than a minute or even within ten or twenty seconds after coital entrance. Occassionally, a male may become so stimulated psychically or through physical petting that he ejaculates before he has effected genital union."

God I love those terms "coital entrance" and "genital union." "Honey, I feel ready to initiate coital entrance. OK?" "Hey hon, I'm in the mood for a genital union. You up for that after the game?"

Moreover, I think Kinsey makes a good point about rapid response that exposes our essential selfeshness, especially among women::

"Far from being abnormal, the human male who is quick in his sexual response is quite normal among he mammals, and usual in his own speices [most people forget that we are primates]. It is curious that the term 'impotance' should have ever been applied to such rapid response. It would be difficult to find another situation in which and individual was quick and intense in his repsonses was labeled anything but superior, and that in most instances is exactly what the rapidly ejaculating male probably is, however inconvenient and unfortunate his qualities may be from the standpoint of the wife in the relationship."

Unfortunately, I am abnormal, and can engage in genital union for as long as my partner wants. Oh, how I long to be a "normal" primate.

And why do you think all these older women are hooking up with teenage boys? I'll let Kinsey tell you:

"Exceptions are found chiefly among younger married males who are still in their teens. At that age, 15 percent of the population is capable of experiencing two or more ejaculations during a limited period of time and during continuous erotic activity [this has always been the case for me]. The number of males who are capable of such multiple orgasm decreases with advancing age. Not more than 7 percent remain so capable by age 35 [cue the violins, or get some Viagra]."

I think the above explains a lot about dysfunctional sexuality among today's couples; it's not about performance, it's about psychology.. We're all too selfish and too insecure.