SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's oldest user of Viagra is 99.
That shows the spirit is willing, even if the flesh might be weak, in the strait-laced city state of four million, where people are reputed to have less sex each year than any other place in the world and where birth rates have dropped alarmingly.
"I hope I can still go for treatment when I am 99," said Li Man Kay, a consultant urologist who surveyed the man, among 1,520 patients who used the drug in Singapore, for a study published in the International Journal of Urology.
He said the man was a very fit retiree who was on his second marriage, to a woman in her sixties, but gave no further details.
"There will be a lot more older people in the years to come," Li told reporters Wednesday at a function marking five years for Viagra in Singapore, where more than 1.5 million prescriptions for the drug have been filled since 1999.
"So it is crucial for people who are most likely to get erectile dysfunction to be healthy and productive."
Singaporeans make love an average of 96 times a year, an annual sex survey by condom maker Durex showed last September, the second time in a row that the island ranked last worldwide.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&e=9&u=/nm/20040505/od_nm/singapore_viagra_dc
That shows the spirit is willing, even if the flesh might be weak, in the strait-laced city state of four million, where people are reputed to have less sex each year than any other place in the world and where birth rates have dropped alarmingly.
"I hope I can still go for treatment when I am 99," said Li Man Kay, a consultant urologist who surveyed the man, among 1,520 patients who used the drug in Singapore, for a study published in the International Journal of Urology.
He said the man was a very fit retiree who was on his second marriage, to a woman in her sixties, but gave no further details.
"There will be a lot more older people in the years to come," Li told reporters Wednesday at a function marking five years for Viagra in Singapore, where more than 1.5 million prescriptions for the drug have been filled since 1999.
"So it is crucial for people who are most likely to get erectile dysfunction to be healthy and productive."
Singaporeans make love an average of 96 times a year, an annual sex survey by condom maker Durex showed last September, the second time in a row that the island ranked last worldwide.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&e=9&u=/nm/20040505/od_nm/singapore_viagra_dc