I would think a book with this title would mention the threat to tigers, rhinos, and other rare beasts caused by Asian men seeking an impotence cure.

I guarantee that half of all Viagra sales are to head off, so to speak, lawyers banging down someone's door to cart off half their stuff in the name of constructive abandonment. In fact and in practice lack of sexual relations because of ED is assumed by the courts to be a case of adultery they just haven't discovered yet. So is there fear and desperation? Uh yeah - as soon as we exterminate all the marital lawyers though it will be a bright shining new day.

Unlike the quaternary mixed partial differential equations that are, apparently, at the root of the vagaries of female sexualilty. One wonders at the picture of nearly depopulated world if it depended on female arousal for conception.

Pretty damn funny how the Patriarchy has screwed itself over once again.

Women had nothing to do with shaming men about any erectile disorders.

All that Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and Deadwood, and all of that lit aside, to hell with Rusty Warren, this articles paints another picture of women playing no role in how and where society got.

The article paints a picture of women that need and want sex, but are so socially impotent or repressed themselves, that they are not acknowledged to have had any role in their husbands or lovers erection.

Viagra is a gift from heaven. For men, for women. Thank goodness we live now, rather than any time in the past. Viagra-induced erections + an Age of Aquarius attitude toward sex have blessed us.

Please stow polite abstract speculation. Mature men know. We thank the lord for Viagra. And we pity our fathers.

As long as their tongues work we're pretty much fine...

If a woman is dry, just add K-Y or some other lubricant.

But if the man can't get hard -- horrors!!

It's time we got rid of this double standard. Sex can be perfectly fine without an erection. Thanks for giving us this badly needed viewpoint.

One wonders at the picture of nearly depopulated world if it depended on female arousal for conception.

I wonder at the picture of men burning the midnight oil studying sexual technique and bragging about their skill at getting a woman aroused if this was the case. Actually I think there have been times when this belief has been held. A man who went back to college in his early 70's (and is in my Pilates class!) was in one of my psyc classes when in the context of a discussion asked "but doesn't the woman have to have an orgasm to conceive?". When I said no, he said wonderingly, "but how do the sperm get up in there then?"

In one of my less professional moments, I said "UP? What position have you been using?"

I am not sure about this but Salon, years ago, did not encourage self promotion. I am probably going to break a rule but as it is in a good cause, or causes, my retirement fund and the promotion of a service to men and women, here goes. Try the buzz, a unique and absolutely satisfying and new, well new to me that is, way of vibrating the willie and winkie. Go to getorgasmic.com and learn to vibrate your problems away. Viagra while being of benefit to millions is virtually uncontrollable. While the buzz certainly is.

Rayner

I vaguely remember some study from a few years ago that showed that female orgasm (and the accompanying contractions) did serve to help sperm get up through the cervix and into the uterus, so female orgasm can assist in fertility. It was also supposed to help by helping female partners want to maintain a relationship with the male partner who gave them orgasms, thereby helping his genes spread. Of course I can't remember the details, but this is for the guy mentioned in psycprof's posting. :)

wow- that article gives males abdominal gas?

That article reminded me of sacred sexual discretion. Seems to me your shedding some light. "What you got hidden under the cloak?" asked a lady to the priest. He had a wise reply. "It's hidden under my cloak so you won't know what it is." (Plutarch)

Then, listen to what the male wrote more openly. 'Et nudam pressi corpus adusque meum'....o.

...meum culpa? That meat (type error. honest) meant [Nude against my body did I press her] Ovid my!

Then, guess what she said? "You should have used your tongue?" No. This, "I can feel him gelding me!"

Is that's modesty or what? hush. It's half-past 4 AM EDT. It's time to do some outdoor chores and stay out of trouble in the hay. Ladies cover their bodies with lace and silk. We seem to forget we stink and leave the toilet seat up? "Drips come forth from his conk like snot from a dog snot." (Martial- Epigrams)

O, miseri men, who hold their joys a crime. The denatured animal may need 'V' or is he just making things worse? I enjoyed the article and have a nice good appetite. Eat garlic too. It's a good breath stimulator with some green parsley...

How did we get on this topic? I must go sit under some mountain laurel. It's a pink and cream flower.

I think Salon is at the tipping point. Seems that the entire middle column today is scratched from someone's female oriented agendized screed. Between the 50% Iraq coverage and the 50% radical feminism coverage I'm left scratching my head what the target demo is here? Middle aged female antiglobalists? Is Salon slowly becoming a parody of itself?

. . .as demonstrated by the postings today. It's really quite simple. Men like boners because it gives them pleasure and gives their women pleasure. Women can be pleasured orally, to be sure, but that is because their pleasure nerves are more diversely dispersed than men's, centering in the clitoris but rediating around the entrance to the vagina and down the thighs and up toward the belly. The latter fact is useful as part foreplay, which most men just don't grasp the importance of and necessity for ("men are microwaves, women are ovens"). But the main course still is, and always will be, boning. And to that end, pills are good, but implants are the total solution, and they are covered by Medicare. The latter may seem pathetic and gruesome to a young man, but wait till you come up limp, dude, and then turn around and ask your honey what she thinks. You will have a Eureka moment, and if you act on it, your life will be full of dependable joy until the day you die.