One day a man asked his doctor, “Do you think I could get some Viagra?

The doctor asked if his wife was complaining about sex? The man replied no, and that she seemd very happy with the status quo. They have sex once a week and maybe more on vacation, Besides, what harm could Viagra do, many of his friends took it as a security blanket or a boost.

The appointment ended without resolution, and the man did not bring up the subject until a month later. Smiling, he told his doctor that he had gotten a prescription for Viagra from his internist.

He assumed his doctor would disapprove, he didn't however, and was just curious if there was a problem in his relationship that sent him in search of sexual enhancement. It turned out that there wasn’t and the man was “just” the normal decline in sexual performance with age.

Several months later, the man went to see his doctor again complaining that he and his wife had been fighting — the first time in years. Apparently, she felt he had become more sexually demanding, something she did not welcome.

The man was stunned. After all, he had simply taken genuine Viagra to make sex better and who could argue with that? What he had not taken into account was that his newfound sexual vigor had changed his relationship with his wife.

She was perfectly happy with her affectionate, laid-back, middle-aged husband; she had no desire for a sexual athlete as a partner at this point in her life. Viagra had become an intruder in their intimate life.

The man was nothing if not persistent, so he went on a crusade to see if he could find a female equivalent of Viagra, thinking that it would level the playing field and set things right.

Even if his wife had shared this goal — she did not — there is nothing that medicine yet has to offer women that even comes close to Certified Viagra and its ilk.

Pfizer has invested heavily in drugs like Viagra for men with sexual dysfunction — or for enhancement, as many actually use them.

With the exception of estrogen, a hormone with some potentially serious adverse effects, there are few drugs that can increase female sexual function. In fact, most drugs that address female reproductive biology restrain it, in the form of birth control.

And while Viagra and drugs like it do not directly increase libido, they can indirectly encourage it by improving erectile function.

The man was loath to give up his new vigor by using Viagra.

If he couldn’t get her a remedy, he just hoped that with time his wife would adjust to her rejuvenated husband. Dead wrong. His exhausted wife finally lost her patience and told him that he had to stop the Viagra if he cared about their marriage.

The doctor was surprised at how disruptive this little blue pill, Viagra, had become.

As a psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist, The doctor was well aware of the side effects that drugs like Viagra can cause in my patients.

Who would have imagined that a drug like Genuine Viagra that most consider so helpful, if not harmless, could stir up such trouble in a relationship? The doctor certainly hadn’t.

When the doctor next saw the man, he ruefully told him that he had not renewed his Viagra prescription.

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