Men’s Health

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Dear Reader,

Apparently, the problem with Viagra is that you have to be able to plan four hours ahead of when you are going to be having sex.

The way it works is that the old dude takes his Viagra, then he and the little woman watch their Woodstock DVD a couple of times, and then he is ready to, you know, thing.

Tragically, the Baby Boomers weren't noted for their ability to be organised.

They spent all their time taking drugs at random and having spontaneous sexual encounters in ashrams with anonymous partners while sitars played improvised muzak in the background.

Well, sadly, there's good news for these badly-organised bastards.

NO MORE popping a pill an hour before a romantic meal or making a booking with the wife. Now the 40% of older Australian men who have trouble getting an erection can take a tablet every morning that will make them ready for sexual intercourse without having to plan ahead.

<sarcasm>How marvellous.</sarcasm>

Just as we Generation X cats were starting to hope that the Boomers would finally take the cue from their collapsing libidos and shuffle off to the retirement villages, they get this wonder drug that will make them sixteen forever, dear Reader!

Our only hope is that they've stuffed up their superannuation, and can't afford it.

But it won't be cheap. A packet of 28 pills will cost about $170 a month. Viagra costs about $70 for four tablets. "It is expensive, but in my experience most men are just grateful to be able to have sex at all," the chief executive officer of Impotence Australia, Brett McCann, said yesterday.

Yes. The spectacle of nanna and grampa sex on the beaches and park benches of our nation is just another reason to cheer on the Baby Boomers, the generation that just doesn't know when the party's over.

If you are unfortunate enough to see a couple of older persons getting frisky, dear Reader, do me a favour and point and giggle.

And if that doesn't work, kick the guy in the nuts.

Yours,
Gullybogan