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FIrst of all, there just MIGHT be biological bases for peenie weenie problems.
1) Research shows that male fertility is WAY down, perhaps 50% of what it was 50 years ago, which some scientists attribute to the degradation of PVCs and chloride into the environment into compounds that mimic the hormone estrogen.
2) The older you get, the less able you are to perform sex acrobatically. Indeed, part of the genetic blueprint of all life forms is for them to wear out eventually, to be replaced with new life forms, because life is always struggling to adapt itself to changing environments. Add to this the increasing stresses of the workplace and trying to figure out how you are going to survive in George W Bush's environment, and maybe guys are just too damned tired to bang all night like they did when they were 19.
But probably, it's just marketing bullshit. We are brainwashed to believe that we must not not have any body odors, we not not appear to age, that we must be cheerful and productive at all times, that we have to be able to f*** like porn stars 24/7 throughout our lifetime. That our lives are diminished if we do not.
I was reading some Mailer last night, when he said you know that the world is in serious trouble when sex is regarded more as recreation than the means of continuing the race.
Traditionally, there has been a cultural understanding that there are periods of existance -- childhood, a time of intense sexual activity, a career, raising a family, and then a retirement in which you dedicate yourself to examining the ultimate questions of existance as you face death. Instead, America seems to have become fixated on the adolescent stage -- of shallowness, of sex, of posturing.
We're being told that we need drugs to keep us f***ing like rabbits all of ours, and drugs to keep us happy and cheerful even though our jobs and our families and current events are wearing us out. No ones wishes to examine and especially not address the existential basis of our physical "ailments", because they NEED us to be adolescent zombies to keep us in our miserables jobs and maintaining the lifestyles of the rich and Republican.
In this same essay Mailer wrote that in the past there were ILLNESSES that could be cured, and today, there are only conditions, which are mysterious, that no one understands, and that can only be treated ineffectively. I say, that is a deliberate choice by the medical and pharmaceutical industries, to benefit the stockholders so they have more money to donate to George W Bush -- because, if they cure illnesses -- where's the profit.
In conclusion, I just wish to say I am sick and tired of these idiotic "erectile disfunction" commericials. They get stupider all the time -- now they have that grinning, giggling, squirming young woman talking breathily about how her MAN that takes Cialis, with backdrops that look like the start of a stupid porn short.
Why the FUCK doesn't Michael Powell get all worked up about pill pushers peddling "F***ing enhancers" on primetime tv and radio? Given the Almighty Power of the pharmaceutical industry, the answer to this is a no-brainer.
Why the FUCK doesn't AG Ashcroft get all worked about pill pushers peddling "F***ing enhancers" on primetime tv and radio? After all, he goes after the porn industry, which exists because it has the very same effect, and has been the way that "erectile dysfunction" has been dealt with for thousands of years.
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