# Thinner, tanned, and sexually enhanced - new drug promises all **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514 "2003-11-21T15:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/1 "2003-11-21T15:54:47Z")
According to [this article](http://www.nbc17.com/health/2652603/detail.html) FDA trials are underway for a product that allegedly does all three. In an related article, Canadian pharmacies join with spammers in filing class action to block further research. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/2 "2003-11-21T15:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > “Even at a very low starting dose, every subject had an erection,” Dorr said. Anybody else get a picture of a bunch of naked dudes standing around with hard-ons? I need to go scrub my brain now. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/3 "2003-11-21T16:16:44Z")
Way too good to be true, I wonder about side effects they haven’t discovered yet. Earth-destroying flatulence? Liver cancer from prolonged exposure? Maybe the erections just _never go away._ This sounds like one of those hypothetical questions in one of those psychological games, “If you could take a pill that would make you thin and tan, and enhance your sexual prowess, but also caused (_insert horrifying or humiliating side effect here_), would you take it?” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/4 "2003-11-21T16:36:14Z")
Oh my god. Forget the side effects – you know how much you could CHARGE for something like that? People will be killing each other to get to it. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/5 "2003-11-21T17:10:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jenaroph \* > **Maybe the erections just _never go away._** You say that like it’s a bad thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/6 "2003-11-21T17:21:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > **Anybody else get a picture of a bunch of naked dudes standing around with hard-ons?** :: drools :: Can they be wearing fireman hats, too? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/7 "2003-11-21T17:37:08Z")
It was kinda weird to be reading this story about guys having teriffic hard ons with a grinning Ellen Degeneres at the top of the page plugging her show. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/8 "2003-11-21T17:47:00Z")
Ya know what? If it could do laundry, I think I’d marry this pill! ---
**Author:** ![AnnaLucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@AnnaLucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaLucretia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinner-tanned-and-sexually-enhanced-new-drug-promises-all/214514/9 "2003-11-21T18:05:38Z")
danceswithcats wears a fireman’s hat. About the rest, I couldn’t say.