# Question about erections

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-erections/245231>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 15, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-erections/245231 "2004-05-15T04:45:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Wasabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@Wasabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wasabee)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-erections/245231/21 "2004-05-17T06:45:13Z")

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> [@ltfire](#):
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> Let’s clear up a false conception about these ‘miracle pills’.  
> You don’t ‘pop’ one and have an instant erection. You will wait one to two hours before these dudes find there way to the place where they are going to do their thing. They don’t work like an aspirin where your headache goes away ten minutes later. Viagra, the first one on the market, runs close to the two hour mark. Lavitra, the second one on the market, brings the time lag down to 30 minutes to an hour. The new guy in town, Cialis, has an end time, you could call it, because it is supposed to remain in your system for 38 hours. This does not mean that you can have 38 erections in 38 hours. What it is trying to accomplish is allowing the gentleman to choose WHEN he will have sex. If you are following me, if honey would like sex NOW, and you are on Viagra or Levitra, your response is to keep on building that bird house and say ‘ok…see ya in an hour’. On the other hand, if you expect to have relations in the next 38 hours, and you took Cialis, when honey is ready, you’ll be ready. Or, so the Cialis people will have you believe. My cite is me on the first two. I’ll get back to you on the third one.  
> 🆒

Already knew that but thanks. I just didn’t see a reason to type "pop a pill… wait until it enters my system… get my tower raised.

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-erections/245231/22 "2004-05-17T06:46:38Z")

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Can anyone give me a hint as to what these guys are talking about?

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