I'm driving home yesterday and listening to sports talk radio when a commercial came on that really confused me. It started off asking if I was tired of the effects of aging. This peaked my interest because, while getting older sucks, I have always thought it was better than the alternative. That is primarily because I was under the impression that there was only one alternative and I doubted this was a commercial for dieing.
"Are you tired of the effects of aging? Then die!"
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So I kept listening and it went on to ask if I felt like life had lost its fun and if I could do something about would I. Then it said the center for anti-aging (or something like that... I dont recall the actual name) could help.
A center to stop aging? Wow! Had they found the fountain of youth? Was there some new gene therapy that could keep us young forever?
It went on talking about how crappy life could be as you get old then it slipped in, very quickly and only once, that "not all ED was the same".
Really? An erectile dysfunction commercial? That is what an "anti-aging" clinic can do for me? Since when did having a boner become the same as staying young? And why is a limp willy a sign of aging to such an extent that providing a stiff one qualifies as age defying? This is bullshit. I am really tired of how saturated with ED adds and treatments we have become and how it is seen as a normal part of getting older. I mean do they think that people who spent their lives looking for the fountain of youth would have come across a pile of Viagra and been like "Eureka! A hard on!" Sorry but they are just not that rare. If I believed every commercial I saw during any show whose primary demographic was men or the thousands of adds in my spam filter I would think that any man over 20 was walking around depressed and lifeless because their little soldier wouldnt stand at attention any more. Thats just not the case.
And thats another thing... the ridiculous commercials they have for these things. Packs of men on weekend get aways sitting around discussing how their junk doesnt work or commiserating about it during a jam session with the guys. When I think of girls staying together I think pillow fights in their underwear now when I think of guys away together I think of these ridiculous Viagra commercials. Look I have been on some weekend trips with the guys and I can tell you we dont discuss our dicks not working. If it ever does come up (no pun intended) it is about how well it worked and how hot she was. I mean, unless it was a weekend get away Broke Back Mountain style I cant imagine why the working status of a stiffy would even be a topic of discussion. Most guys would just keep that shit to themselves. The last thing you want is more fodder for the other guys.
Then there is the Cialis commercial. If there was a sudden stopage in the pipe and I had a pill that gave me a 48 hour window to use it again the last thing I would do is drag two cast iron bathtubs out to a lake and then sit in them with my wife, seperately, and stare at the sun set.
Here is the point, ED is not a normal part of aging. There are a lot of things that deteriorate with age... eyes, short term memory, hearing, tolerance for good music, driving capability, short term memory... but the monster rod is not one of them. Sure it can get worse but that is due to problems with blood pressure or circulation or injury not just the fact that you are older. Disgusting as it may be, there are lots of old guys out there that can achieve normal healthy erections till the day they die. Ever hear of Hugh Hefner? That dude is 1014 years old and still in full working order. So lets not fall into the trap of equating getting older with a decrease in sexual function and leave the anti-aging claims to snake oil salesmen and crystal skin vampires.
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