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Maybe we should have seen it coming: Viagra, credited with the reinvigoration of the male sex drive, has now been linked to a number of pregnancies in previously infertile women. A little pill appears to give everyone what they want: Men get their mojo back, while some infertile women may get the pregnancies they desire. In Las Vegas, four patients whose uterine linings were considered too thin to support a fertilized egg were given Viagra in hopes of increasing blood flow to the problem areas - in the same way the drug delivers a surge of blood...
...coercion. Divorce will be outlawed, along with abortion and possibly contraception. Extramarital hanky-panky will be punishable with shunning or, in the more hard-line jurisdictions, stoning. There will still be sex, and probably plenty of it inside marriage, thanks to what will be known as Chemically Assisted Monogamy: Viagra for men and Viagra-like drugs for women, such as apomorphine and Estratest (both are being tested right now), to reignite the spark long after familiarity has threatened to extinguish it. Naturally, prescriptions will be available only upon presentation of a valid marriage license...
...Prozac? If current trends in psychiatry keep up, there won't be a drug or a diagnosis that kids and their parents won't be able to share. But a teenager on Prozac is not a teenager; he's a depressive studying for a driver's license. (And when Viagra starts being prescribed for shy 16-year-olds, we can be sure that teenagerhood has passed.) Personally, I foresee a time when people will enter "recovery" at 13 and pen best-selling memoirs on their struggles before they've even taken their SATs. Expect a crop of precocious old souls...
...well aware that Internet stocks with aggregate net losses and annual revenue of just $30 billion now carry $1 trillion of market value. O.K., that's a burden. But it will lighten gradually as winners and losers shake out. I can hold on long enough. This is the Viagra age. An old guy like me can prop up a lot more than he used...
...Next Friday B: Viagra C: Campaign slogan...