Viagra, an environmental medicine

The decade of the nineties of the twentieth century was coming to an end. The Legislative Assembly of the state of Zulia honored me to be the Speaker of Order in a Special Session for the Environment Day. I proudly began my speech for history by saying that I was coming to that legislative precinct with great news: they had invented an Environmentalist Medicine for erectile dysfunction. What I said attracted attention. And you heard: Viagra, a formula patented by the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Industry gave the Vigor of Niagara as one patient in the clinical study said, Via for Vigor and Gra for Niagara.

If that were true, they would stop killing deer, elephants, rhinoceroses, rabbits, seahorses, among other species that served as aphrodisiacs. I was sure that those horrendous hunts or fishing to get an erection would be over..

Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of love, was used for the naming of these products. In the course of history, aphrodisiacs appear reflected in Egypt before the Christian era, in the Genesis of the Bible, in the diets in Indian books (Kama Sutra, Aranaga Ranga), sea foods of the Greeks and other foods used by Rome. In practice, they were foods (vegetable or animal) that resembled the anatomy, the form of the sexual organs of the woman or the man..

From eggs of chelonians, chickens or partridges, fish or their roe, seahorses, shells (bivalves), testicles of some species, body fluids, including bile and blood of some animals, such as plantigrades (bears). In the extreme search for erection, fluids and antlers of some species deer, antelopes, rhinoceroses, elephants, among other species.

In that speech we were proud of sildenafil because it would save all those species. A visit to the pharmacy asking for a pharmaceutical formula, a pill to use from half an hour before starting a sexual intercourse, was enough to not kill so many animals. It was an environmental medicine that would leave behind the slaughter of animals.

Unfortunately, the total coverage of the news that we said at the end of the 20th century, was not fulfilled or there will be another cause. We are talking about the news of sildenafil, Biagre, the environmentalist drug, have not reached a sector that still buys these aphrodisiacs. The so-called Rhinoceros War is alive and kicking..

Rhino horn is still part of restaurant menus in Asia.

The attraction to environmental crime is so great that they dare to do it. Rhino horns are valued at hundreds of thousands of euros, which gives rise to the killing of these mammals and park rangers..

We continue to believe in the environmental character of sildenafil, of Viagra, this is a drug that can save many species and among them the rhinos. The additional, and also important, is that it could prevent the death of our brother park rangers, in the hands of those environmental criminals who kill rhinos..