How Viagra changed the world

How Viagra changed the world | BBC Ideas

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Viagra burst into bedrooms in the late 1990s. Its impact has been huge - helping men who had struggled with erectile dysfunction for years. But has it changed the world? Or just doubled down on how it was? Sex educator Justin Hancock has this brief history of Viagra.
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0:00 Viagra was discovered by accident
0:22 How Viagra was discovered in the early 1990s
1:00 Viagra is born
1:34 Viagra become one of the fastest selling drugs, ever
2:14 Has Viagra changed how we normalise sex?
3:30 Did Viagra change the world?
3:45 Other potential uses for Viagra - easing period pain or treating Alzheimer's?
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@simone222 5 ай бұрын

My late father used it on coitus with women he had affairs with. On the one hand, my mum is currently using 25 mg of Viagra thrice daily as her maintenance medication for pulmonary hypertension. It's quite efficacious. On top of PAH, she has emphysema as well. Thus I'm quite thankful to this drug for keeping my mum's condition under control.

@samdaniel4879 4 ай бұрын

Nice Animation.

@whitepony8443 5 ай бұрын

I thank you.

@juanyeizi2895 5 ай бұрын

I never thought about how the change of the pron industry could've affected real relationships, expectations and common consensus of how sexual intercourse is supposed to be made, it may even change in the future and we will never understand the new practices as we were raised to think other stuff 🤯

@dipiti8739 5 ай бұрын

One of BBC Ideas !!!

@tatiyana8934 Ай бұрын

Is it true, that supermicro-doses of sildenafil can improve the condition of the internal walls of the vessels? (circulatory system) in my opinion, if this is true, - then it is a much more important part of talks about viagra... Considering that one of the most severe - system - damages caused by covid, was precisely impacts on the vascular system 😟 - if I understand the subject correctly... ( - because I'm not a doctor, and have no specialized education /☝🏻)