It’s actually kind of funny that the first thing I thought when I heard about the discovery of paxil was “aha! so, the side effects from paxil are actually the drug’s primary benefit!”
That’s how they found Viagra!
Oh, yes, I remember that one! I have to say, that whole “Viagra is an effective drug” thing is just really funny to me. It is so not the drug’s primary benefit! Viagra’s primary benefit is being able to get out of your house.
(To be more clear, I don’t think it’s bad that this drug is also good at other stuff, I’m just saying that I am extremely amused at the existence of a drug that was so much about getting out of your house, and now has other things that are really good, but is also still mostly about getting out of your house)
don’t want to leave the house flaccid. how embarrassing would that be!
This is just the kind of thing I would say when talking about drug side effects. I love it when people have very serious physical side effects from their drugs, just hint hinthint hinthint hint hint
u love it when people take viagra and then are hard????
this is the best thing about it all. If a drug’s primary benefit were actually its side effects, there would be a lot more drug-seeking behavior going on – more people are constantly on these things, and more people would have side effects and be on them because they like the side effects. And the ones who don’t, would have to pretend to like the side effects in order to get off the drugs, which would probably be easier. But then we have all these cases where people have a side effect-seeking motive and it seems to work (people who don’t have side effect-seeking motive don’t want the drugs, they want other drugs – which may be better for them but have side effects too)
And like, if your primary motivation is to see your dick get hard, then yeah, you’re probably gonna take Viagra. But like, how many people are getting Viagra and then, afterwards, are taking other drugs? Like a pill called “Viagra that works better” that has side effects and costs much less?
(As an addendum to this – it’s worth noting that even the side effects of Viagra are basically about getting out of the house. The real primary benefit of Viagra for lots of people is the ability to do other things in the house while still maintaining your erectile function)
This is something that frustrates me about all the “pro-lifestyle” type stuff – it wants to present these drugs, which are inherently unpleasant (some of them, anyway), as if they’re the opposite of unpleasant – “oh, I really want to buy this medication, and then I’ll have great sex!”
This is great! I want to have great sex, but I’m on a really unpleasant medication(or maybe I’m not on a medication and I just have a shitty libido). I want that shit to go away, I want to have no erection issues, I want that pill to give me back my libido and I don’t care at all that this will also cause weird side effects like nausea. This is good, right? This is cool?
So it’s nice to see someone who’s just like “yeah I’m on Viagra and I’m like ‘haha oh my god this will fix the fact I hate my life all the time because of my brain and I don’t know what to do about it’ because it’s kind of like being high all the time!” and then also “so I have to take a pill everyday to make sure I don’t lose my erection, and this pill makes me nauseous and it makes me have really weird dreams and like, I’ll probably still have sexual problems afterwards but eh whatever”
Pretty smart. I was recently reading a book called “A Short History of Nearly Everything” which I liked a lot. I’m always reading and stuff like that makes me feel smarter than I am.
